This was too deep for GD? Looking for words of wisdom.

[Quantess]

-when you have ambitions, goals, dreams that you yourself believe in, and then someone else tries to shoot you down, even in a trivial way.

-or, when you feel you have achived so much toward a huge accomplishment that has taken so much work, but you still have a long way to go... and someone puts a negative spin on it (even if they end it by saying, "that's really great!").

No matter how quickly or how excellently you may have approached your goal, someone will be there to tell you what went wrong.

...when someone is dismissive of your very-real dreams.
...when they act like you are crazy for trying, meanwhile deep down inside yourself, you know that you can realistically make it happen.
-or when they say, "Why would want to you do that?"

There have been some famous quotes. I can't remember any of them.

[Swede]

1. Here are a couple.

"It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own." -- Pablo Picasso

"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." -- Elbert Hubbard

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway ." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is much easier to be critical that to be correct." --Benjamin Disreli

"Blame is safer than praise." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned." -- Dale Carnegie

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain.. and most fools do." -- Dale Carnegie

[VenusRising]

2. One of my favorite quotes:

[CJCRANE]

3. Further to my post in GD...

my favorite translation of Marcus Aurelius is in "Box of Illuminations" (a set of four small books of translations of famous ancient texts). It's a very down-to-earth version.

I won't quote any of the advice because it makes more sense if you read several pages, then you start to get his view of things.

[pink-o]

4. Note my Oscar Wilde quote as my sig line

Also, you can only be limited if you allow yourself to be. Don't own someone else's judgment, just follow your bliss.