Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”. Wow, what a powerful statement! Nobody has the power to make you feel inferior unless you tell them it’s okay to do so.
So let’s ask some questions about this thought then. First of all, why do people try to make other people feel inferior? And secondly … why would I give anyone permission to do that to me?
There is no doubt that we will all run into people in our lives that will try to make us feel inferior.
If someone feels inferior themselves, they frequently believe that they will feel better about themselves when they have intimidated the other person to feel lesser. If they can knock someone else down to a place of inferiority, somehow they believe that they will feel more valuable.
So why would you give them the permission? The only reason you would or could give anyone else that consent is if you have already given it to yourself.
If you speak to yourself as someone who is less valuable than others, then anyone who adds to that conversation is only building off a base that you have constructed.
And so today, refuse. Refuse to give that permission to anyone, including yourself. You are a beautiful and wonderfully unique creation of God himself. You are not inferior. So live today in that truth!
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