Approving Quotes

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”

“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”

“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

“Frankl approvingly quotes the words of Nietzsche: "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”

“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives—of approving of some and disapproving of others.”

“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”

“As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.”

“The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and the bride, who would be dead soon.It watched approvingly, appreciating the complexities—and fragilities—of life.”