Quotes About Validation

Make sure your decision to have a child is based on the need to share your life completely with another little human being and not because of some personal need for validation as a woman.

It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life.

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong.

Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

I only come to life when there are people watching.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

When the need for someone else's love or approval outweighs one's own, self-betrayal is near.

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

The healthiest way I know how to move through an emotion effectively is to surrender completely to that emotion when its loop of physiology comes over me. I simply resign to the loop and let it run its course for 90 seconds. Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated. Over time, the intensity and frequency of these circuits usually abate. Really powerful thoughts

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

being right is very important to most of us. It is a powerful need, and like all needs, it must be overcome.

What you had to say was important to this individual, and she or he wanted to listen. Just to be listened to can bring good thoughts to mind.

Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness—specifically, the need to be liked.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.