Quotes About Validation

My friend's mom said to me, 'honey, I think you're gay.' And I go, 'yeah, I am.' As soon as someone vocalized it to me, gave me permission. I was like, 'yes, yes, yeah!'

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Don't buy clothes at department stores—just take the clothes into the dressing room, post a photo of yourself on Instagram wearing them, and leave as the likes start accumulating by the hundreds.

Suffering from feelings of inner emptiness, some meditation practitioners may misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of 'no-self,' and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their feelings of emptiness.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

decide on goals. Ask yourself if the acceptance of the idea is more important than getting credit for it.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

Later, I met a woman to whom I said, "If all my family had stood around me as a child and said, 'You're wonderful. You're wonderful. You're wonderful.' after an hour I would have complained, 'You're not saying it loud enough.

The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.

Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that. -- Marsellus Wallace

One; to make sure. Two; 'cause it felt good.

Sometimes I really hate being right.

Now, please don't tell me you don't care about how you look and that there's more to you than your appearance. There are two kinds of people in this world : people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

With every trade we make, comment we leave, person we flag, badge we earn, we leave a reputation trail.

Your failures keep returning to you, while your successes are something you always have to be convince yourself of.

If you have always been criticised, from before you can remember, it becomes more or less impossible to locate yourself in the time or space before the criticism was made: to believe, in other words, that you yourself exist.

my individuality had tormented me my whole life with its demand to be recognised.

Is it male attention I want, or male authority?