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Quotes about People’s Opinion

    “It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

    Marcus Aurelius

      “It’s hard to be a person in this world. Maybe not as much for you, but it definitely is for some people. So you must be patient. You must be understanding. You must not assume the worst. You must do what you can to help…and put up with the people that you can’t. Things are hard enough, you don’t need to make it harder…for them or for yourself.”

      Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Blog

        “People normally see you through the very thick lens of their own past. Letting our lives be defined by the valuations/judgments that others place on us, is a quick path to people pleasing and constant dissatisfaction. If you want to do your life justice, then you need to simply be kind, walk gently, have compassion, but above all, live in a way that honors your truth. It is possible to view others without judgment, to see them through a lens of acceptance, but that takes intentional practice and healing work to relieve yourself of the thickness of ego.”

        Yung Pueblo

          “just because someone was wrong once, it doesn’t mean they are going to be wrong forever. similarly, just because we may perceive someone as wrong, it does not necessarily mean that we are right. in most cases we lack the perfect information required to form an objective and universal perspective. it is important to remember that we are all imperfect and that we all live through the limited perspective of ego. striving to learn as much as we can from one another without making harsh and permanent judgments is a sign of wisdom.”

          Yung Pueblo, Inward (Page 183)

            “He who always listens to what other people say about him will never find inner peace.”

            Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 77)

              “The majority of people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”

              Sören Kierkegaard, via Sunbeams (Page 157)

                “People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”

                Ralph Waldo Emerson, via Sunbeams (Page 148)

                  “The Stoic does two things when encountering hatred or ill opinion in others. They ask: Is this opinion inside my control? If there is a chance for influence or change, they take it. But if there isn’t, they accept this person as they are (and never hate a hater). Our job is tough enough already. We don’t have time to think about what other people are thinking, even if it’s about us.”

                  Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 279)

                    “Nobody is rooting for you to fail. You may succeed. You may fail. But, for the most part, nobody cares one way or the other. This is good. The world is big and you are small, which means you can chase your dreams with little worry for what people think.”

                    James Clear, Blog