We endure an enormous amount of unnecessary suffering trying to gain approval from those incapable of loving us back.
It is of great comfort to realize that, when people are wise, they can love our human hearts even if they do not like our our destructive disguises and defenses. The wise are able to see our humanity because they know their own.
if someone cannot love our human hearts they probably do not know their own. It is almost impossible to receive love from those who do not know themselves. It is precisely this familiarity with our own human tissue that allows us to empathize with other humans being even when we detest their words or actions.
People may know every other inch of the universe, but, no one can be truly wise if they cannot recognize the human heart. The wise can love us even when we seem unlovable because they recognize the human heart we may have temporarily lost.
If people cannot love our humanity, in spite of our mistakes and travesties, there is no reason to fret over their opinions of us. Even if they have mastered every other science and art, they cannot be truly wise if they are not lovers of the human heart.