"When you say, "I need more confidence," what……" — Augusten Burroughs

"When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world."

Augusten Burroughs

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