I’ve tried in my life to be someone who doesn’t need to much external validation, particularly about my appearance. I’ve always known that what is really important is what I think about myself, not what other people think about me. If I could depend on myself to feel good about myself, I wouldn’t need to seek that from other people. In a way, I trained myself to be “above” compliments about my appearance. But being “above” compliments also meant I had a general indifference to other people’s opinions — both good or bad. I may not be dependent on a boyfriend, or my mother, or someone else, to make me feel good about how I look, but I couldn’t take a compliment, either. If I took a compliment, wouldn’t that mean that being told I was beautiful — that being beautiful – was important? (via Mirror, Mirror: What Does It Take For You To Believe You’re Beautiful? - The Frisky)