Quotes About Validation

You don't need to hear from anonymous trolls, nor do you need to worry at all about the criticism from people who don't want the sort of thing you make. All they've done is announce that they're not the ones you seek to serve.

admit it. When I get a bad review, my feelings are hurt. After all, it would be nice if every critic said a title of mine was a breakthrough, an inspirational, thoughtful book that explains how everything works. But sometimes they don't. Which is about enough to ruin my day.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that.

We so often in our lives serve as mirrors for one another. We look to others to find out if we ourselves are lovable; we look to others to find out if we are capable of feeling love; we look to others for a reflection of our innate radiance.

It feels good to hear these words, even if I haven't done anything and we're not even close to being men. Even if we are screwups, losers, and criminals, it's still nice to hear someone like Mr. E tell us different.

books can be both mirrors and windows—mirrors in which readers can see themselves on the pages of literature and thereby know their existence in the world is valid and true, and windows into worlds they might never have imagined.

He'd been just like all of the other performers in the world. He'd wanted to be universally loved. He wasn't all that different from Victor, Thomas, or even Junior. They all got onstage and wanted the audience to believe in them. They all wanted the audience to throw their room keys, panties, confessions, flowers, and songs onstage. They wanted the audience to trust them with their secrets.

Then one detail caught my attention. Time (of birth), 5:57 A.M. Wow! I really was born! I wasn't an alien who was dropped down into my adoptive parents' arms. I was a real baby who experienced a real birth from a real mother at a real time of day. For me, that tid-bit of information was like a meal to a starving woman.

Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you. - Bride

A veces dejamos que nos traten mal porque ansiamos sentirnos amados y aceptados hasta tal punto que estamos dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para conseguirlo. Es muy doloroso comprender que por mucho que lo intentes, que lo desees, no te quieren ni te aceptan tal como eres. Cuando por fin lo comprendes, te arrepientes de todo ese tiempo que has pasado complaciendo a los demás y te preguntas qué será eso tan horrible que hay en ti que incluso les impide fingir que te quieren.

Sometimes we let them treat us badly because we yearn to feel loved and accepted so much that we are willing to do anything to get it. It's very painful to realize that no matter how much you try, you feel like it, do not even want to accept you as you are. When they finally understand you, I regret all that time you've spent pleasing others and you wonder what that is so horrible in you that prevents them even pretend to want.

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

All my life has been about proving myself.

Why does life need evidence of life?

The biggest shock of your life is when you first make a record and go to a show and then people start singing the words. Because it occurs to you that they've listened to it!

What other people think is more important than what we feel.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

I don't live my life seeking validation from people on social media.