63+ Stop losing yourself to please everyone quotes.

We are sometimes the greatest threat to ourselves. Many times we focus on all the external factors that have been causing us to lose focus on ourselves, without turning the spotlight on ourselves. We are guilty as charged, for not loving ourselves wholeheartedly. For always placing ourselves on the backburner. For suppressing our happiness, dignity, and peace of mind, so we can fit into places and spaces that aren't accommodative to our emotional, spiritual, and physical health.

They say, sometimes you've got to lose yourself to find yourself. Below I'll share some answers to questions many of you have been asking.

What does it mean when you are losing yourself? You're living a life that isn't yours. More than likely, you're trying hard to fit into spaces and places where you KNOW you don't belong.

How do I stop trying to please everyone? Do what makes you happy. Create healthy boundaries for yourself and others. Stop worrying about what others think about you. You have no control over other people's opinions. You can't control how they feel about you.

Why do I try hard to please everyone? You likely have low self-esteem, and you depend on other people's validation. Maybe you're afraid of hearing them say something bad about you. So, you do everything in your power to walk a straight line for them.

How do I stop pleasing and start living? Do your self-discovery. Spend more of your time on things that will elevate and empower you. Let go of the things that are outside of your control. Focus your energy on things that will build you up and help you grow.

Why is being a people pleaser bad for you and how do you stop? Often we get so scared about not wanting to disappoint the same people who couldn't care less about whether we're dead or alive. The same persons whose feelings we've placed on a pedestal keep trampling on ours. Have you been wondering why you're so unhappy? Why you're not at peace? Maybe, you have been pretending to be who you're not all your life. You can only be yourself, whether the world approves it or not. Stop losing yourself to please everyone else!

“From all I learned about life, you can’t lose yourself in others to discover yourself. You will get lost forever.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“You are the only one capable of loving you the way you deserve to be loved. The only hero that will save you is you, you are everything that you need, If you would only take the time to invest in getting to know yourself, not through outside lenses, but by finding your quiet place within and learning the language of your soul.”
― Micheline Jean Loui

“Don’t ruin your life over somebody else’s foolishness. If they want to leave, let them leave! Manipulating, begging, or coercing someone to stay with you is an insult to SELF. Have confidence in yourself! Know your worth! Take a stand for YOU. You deserve to be loved, respected, and appreciated by someone who’s genuinely in love with you. It may hurt to let go, but trying to force someone to stay with you is more damaging than you realize. It’s VERY unhealthy. Set Yourself Free! Be a Priority to Yourself!”
― Stephanie Lahart

Who cares about what they think. Do what makes you feel alive and make every minute of your life count.”
― Kiran Bisht

“It is not the world’s job to like you; it is yours to love yourself.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We attract all the right things and right people into our life
When we accept and permit ourselves to be completely who we are, wherever we are.”
― Mimi Novic

“Never make another person's emotional or physical needs more important than your own.”
― Germany Kent

“Never again, would I use someone's
approval as a thermometer for
my self-worth.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“The most important person you can be kind to be yourself.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Other people will not always see our worth the way we wish they would. Sometimes our loved ones won’t be able to compute our true value. That doesn’t mean you are of less value or worth. It means that they’re unable to see you for the amazing wonder that you are and that’s their loss.”
― Stalina Goodwin

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Saint Francis de Sales

“When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your flowers.”
― Sanober Khan

“You will trip up and fall sometimes. It doesn't take away from how great you are. You will not always say the right thing. It doesn't revoke the light within you.”
― Stalina Goodwin

“You can't put your heart into everything; you've just got to show up. And if your heart is worn all over you, then so be it, but you can't pull it out of you and put it in places, or put it in people's hands. Because you are like this wild and quiet and laughing thing and people are like things that stand there and don't understand what's going on; so when you put your heart into things like that, you're going to feel either stupid, or very hurt, or both. And it's not people's fault that they are just standing there. I mean, you're the different one; they're not different; they're all the same.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Don’t allow anyone to shame you with your life story. Walk in your truth knowing that you are the better because of it. It is because of all the things you've been through that you can be who you are today.”
― Stalina Goodwin

“Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Value yourself because you are special.
Appreciate yourself because you are unique.
Cherish yourself because you are exceptional.
Love yourself because you are YOU!”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Go above and beyond for yourself! You do it for family, friends, and colleagues, but don’t forget about YOU. It’s important to include yourself… You are worthy of your kindness, too!”
― Stephanie Lahart

“You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want.”
― Nina Simone

“Don't forget to appreciate yourself.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.”
― Francis de Sales

“It is far better to live like a lion for a day than to live like a jackal for a hundred years.” – Tipu Sultan

“If you don't have time for yourself, everything you might be doing is a waste of time.”

― Hiral Nagda

“Don’t lose yourself trying to be everything to everyone.” ― Tony Gaskins

“Love yourself unconditionally and you will inspire the world.”
― Purvi Ranig

“When you feel like you have never been loved so deeply. Well, you must start to love yourself more than anyone else.”
― Dido Stargaze

“The real joy of life is to combat difficulties and miseries with firm determination.” – Tipu Sultan

“It is better to die before you bend your knees before your enemy.” – Tipu Sultan

“You don’t have to love yourself in muttered whispers while loving everyone else with a megaphone.”
― Jasmine Farrell

“You can only love people at the level you love yourself.”
― Germany Kent

“Only you can decide for what you believe your worth is and that will determine how you allow other people to treat you.”
― Germany Kent

“Don't compromise. If you don't get the type of person you desire. If you don't get the kind of person whom you may love. Then don't settle for someone else.”
― Avijeet Das

“Life is so beautiful when you have someone to share it with. But it's more beautiful when you find happiness in yourself while alone.”
― Marion Bekoe

“I rarely do what is expected of me, not to cause a reaction but to please myself rather than others.”
― Marion Bekoe

“If the person in your life can't love you more than you love yourself, you're better off alone. You can love yourself more.”
― Marion Bekoe

“Don’t lose yourself in the process of caring for others. Don’t overdo it as if you don’t need any care to give to yourself. It’s true, you are special too!”― Israelmore Ayivor

“Don't lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn't care about losing you.― K. Bromberg,

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, and take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale

“It's great if you can help others, but seriously ... don't lose YOURSELF in the process!”
― Karen Gibbs

“People are so worried about being accepted that it causes them to lose themselves and in turn, lose moments.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide-open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us and work past all the memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.”
― Alysha Speer

“Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and who we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“If you learn to sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”
― Mandy Hale,

“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
― Mandy Hale

“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.”
― Mandy Hale

“You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“Don't worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.”
― Jason Evert

“You've got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.”
― Charles de Lint

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana

“Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.”
― Mandy Hale

“You know who you are you just have to believe it.”
― Elizabeth Scott

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
― Mandy Hale

“Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.”
― Mandy Hale

“Find out who you are and then follow your heart”
― Kujtim Retkoceri

“It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their qualities.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“You go and find who you are, and don't let anyone stop you.”
― Diana Wynne Jones

“A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.”
― Alan Brennert

“We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.”
― Paul Auster

“Perhaps we are all shells, but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Walk you're and be yourself”
― Joanne Nussbaum

“Find the right paths for your journey.
Travel along these paths to your final destination.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Each new day brings new opportunities. You have to search to be able to find these opportunities.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without adversity, we never find who we are.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita,

“If you want to live within the definition of your truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it.”
― David Levithan

“I had to lose my mind to find myself, and when I found myself, my mind returned.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“Sometimes that which you have never lost is the hardest to find.”
― Iva Kenaz,

Love yourself in such a way, you never lose yourself in any instance.”
― Giridhar Alwar

“Never underestimate the fact that loving others is a choice but loving yourself is a responsibility. ”
― Germany Kent

“Some people may either love you or hate you. But you should never convince anyone to love you!”
― Avijeet Das

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you. Katie Couric

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their problems! Kris Carr

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine. Marlee Matlin

All I can do is follow my instincts because I'll never please everyone. Emma Watson

I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me. Ainsley Earhard

You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong. Constance Wu

If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct. Ekta Kapoor

If you go about trying to please everyone, there are going to be endless struggles. Sonny Bill Williams

Sometimes I'm very impatient. I also feel the need to please everyone, which is unnecessary and impossible. Steve Nash

I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I'd be severely dehydrated. Michael Bisping

You don't want to disappoint anybody, but you know, you lose your voice by trying to please everyone. Diego Luna

I've learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I've also learned that you can't please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what matters. Gretchen Bleiler