Quotes About Validation

I feel ugly, like I'm a bad person, and yet I'd like to be loved.

They're scared. They're afraid we won't be worthy of them.

I always have to prove that I can be better

I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...

No es locura, Dede, es dolor. -No derramó ni una lágrima. -Las lágrimas no son el dolor. -Sí, pero sin las lágrimas, ¿quién te asegura que el dolor existe?

because who am I if you aren't great?

I had less success in the courtyard. There only love and boyfriends counted.

I left. Just now that I was becoming a writer, there was no one in the entire neighborhood capable of saying: What an extraordinary thing you've done.

Há essa presunção em quem se sente predestinado às artes, sobretudo à literatura: trabalha-se como alguém que tivesse recebido uma investidura, mas de fato ninguém jamais nos investiu de coisa nenhuma, fomos nós que demos a nós mesmos a autorização para sermos autores, mas lamentamos quando os outros dizem: essa ninharia que você fez não me interessa, aliás, me entedia, quem lhe deu o direito.

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has ever invested us with anything, it is we who have authorized ourselves to be authors and yet we are resentful if others say: This little thing you did doesn't interest me, in fact it bores me, who gave you the right. (p.463)

I don't want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck

They didn't take anything I did seriously; it was all some trivial, mildly annoying side activity that I insisted on for some reason, having nothing to do with real life. I couldn't challenge or contradict this view, even to myself, because I really didn't know how to do anything real. I didn't know how to move to a new city, or have sex, or have a real job, or make someone fall in love with me, or do any kind of study that wasn't a self-improvement project.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

Anna," he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name. As if he'd just called to make sure she existed.

Dicen que el hombre no es hombre mientras no oye su nombre de labios de una mujer.

A big competition is going on not to be better than oneself who was yesterday but to project oneself good without being actually nice and a person adjudged the best in this contest is often seen garnering a huge support from the people.

A foolish person pleases oneself with the support extended or praise offered by the people who are either sycophants or stupids.

A mentally sick gets the kick by getting 'Likes' vote only on own uploaded pic online literally every day

A negative person gets LIKEs regularly on own uploaded face from many people but not one vote on that what s/he honestly says and those supporters are none but toxic to her/him only.

A netizen who wants to know the worth of his words or an idea should share it with the friends & relatives whom he has got on his social networking sites. If that post is liked by many or most of them, then he is ought to either discard outrightly that thought or stay very cautious with those who support him regularly a lot and the best will be to do things both.

A person can never realize as how difficult it is to get even one ground support or an online like vote from the people unless and until he starts saying or doing consistently something of his own

A person often saying 'I love you all' to the people is just ensuring and assuring merely oneself each time that s/he is being liked by all as much as s/he loves only oneself.

A person who admires only oneself sees often own face in the mirror and craves through the different ways online to get always the praise for own facial look solely from the people.