- If you're not disliked by anyone that means you're not living your truest life. It is impossible to live with freedom if you're spending your life trying to be liked by everyone. - --- Wishing so hard to be recognised will lead to a life of following expectations held by other people who want you to be ‘this kind of person’. In other words, you throw away who you really are and live other people’s lives. And please remember this: if you are not living to satisfy other people’s expectations, it follows that other people are not living to satisfy your expectations. - [[The Courage To Be Disliked]] If one is living in a such a way as to satisfy other people’s expectations, and one is entrusting one’s own life to others, that is a way of living in which one is lying to oneself, and continuing that lying to include the people around one. - [[The Courage To Be Disliked]] ‘freedom is being disliked by other people’. - [[The Courage To Be Disliked]]