Quotes About Validation

when something is true in life, that truth shows up in many ways.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

I am not who people say I am. I am who God says I am.

Who told you that something was wrong with you?

Whatever your critics say about you has no bearing on your worth. You are a child of the Most High God. The Creator of the universe breathed life into you. You have seeds of greatness on the inside. You've been crowned with favor. God has already equipped and empowered you with everything you need. Don't waste your valuable time trying to play up to people, trying to win over all your critics, or trying to prove to someone that you're important.

You don't need people's approval. You don't need their validation. The Most High God has approved you. He's the one that matters.

If you don't know who you are, a child of the Most High God, then you'll spend your energy trying to get other people to validate you. But when you're secure in who God made you to be, you won't live trying to impress people and getting your value out of what they think.

Don't let people talk you into compromising, lowering your standards. They may not approve you, but God approves you. He's the one that matters.

When you base your value on what other people say or do to you, that's going to push you down. But when you base it on what God says about you, it's going to lift you up to the next level.

What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.

You're not going to qualify as a son when you perform well enough.

Relying on the praise of others could become a habit, and those in the habit would seek that praise like an addict and his drug. Strength came through self-belief, and the belief of others without belief in yourself was useless. Chalk was still chalk, even surrounded by granite.

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

Your pain makes sense

The comedian Marc Maron once wrote that "every status update is a just a variation on a single request: 'Would someone please acknowledge me?

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

An authentic life does not require anyone else's approval for your creative choices.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.