“There will be people who treat you like trash and people who treasure you, but how you treat yourself determines your value.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 21
In other words
The same work or dream can be dismissed by one person and deeply valued by another. Their reactions reveal something about their own sight, but neither one fully decides what the work is worth.
Rejection hurts most when it reaches a part of life that carries hope and identity. Yet treating that judgment as final gives another person control over the vision’s direction. Praise can become just as controlling if worth depends entirely on receiving it.
The strongest influence begins with how a person holds their own life and work. Other responses can teach, warn, encourage, or expose a difference in direction. They do not have to become the measure that turns treasure into trash.
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