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If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

Joyce Meyer

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Joyce Meyer
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 4
Author
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Pauline Joyce Hutchison
Experience
Always
People
Withdrawn
Addicted
Approval
Pain

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