Quotes About Validation

Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do.

Women like to be affirmed verbally, just as men like to be affirmed verbally. They tend to pull away from dating partners who do not give affirmation. Lack of verbal affirmation is interpreted as lack of love.

William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.

You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it—she will not feel loved.

I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.

Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated. Words of affirmation will meet that need in many individuals.

My parents may have given me negative or mixed messages about my worth, but my spouse knows me as an adult and loves me. Her love builds my self-esteem. The

Words of affirmation are simply true statements affirming the worth of another person.

The need for significance is the emotional force behind much of our behavior. Life is driven by the desire for success. We want our lives to count for something. We have our own idea of what it means to be significant, and we work hard to reach our goals. Feeling loved by a spouse enhances our sense of significance. We reason, If someone loves me, I must have significance.

Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated. Words

Steven Covey, author of the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, feels so strongly about people's need for appreciation that he states: "Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival, to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated."1

Sadly, some parents display a love that is conditional; it depends on something other than their children just being. Conditional love is based on performance and is often associated with

Many workaholics also feel unloved. The message they received from their parents was not, "We love you," but rather, "We love you if … We love you if you make up your bed, put your dishes in the dishwasher, clean up your room, mow the grass, and make straight A's." Such conditional love sets a child up to become an adult workaholic.

Each of us needs to feel important, even special, to at least one other person in order to be whole.

Think of what would happen in the world if all of us started praising each other for accomplishments rather than pointing out what was wrong.

With enough criticism, you may get acquiescence from your spouse. He may do what you want, but probably it will not be an expression of love.

Because each of us wants to know that what we are doing matters. Without a sense of being valued by supervisors

Feeling loved by a spouse enhances our sense of significance. We reason, If someone loves me, I must have significance.

to show someone your love? Let him or her know you believe in them. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —

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My sense of self-worth is fed by the fact that my spouse loves me. After all, if she loves me, I must be worth loving. My parents may have given me negative or mixed messages about my worth, but my spouse knows me as an adult and loves me. her love builds my self-esteem.

We all need to hear the words "I love you." — Mary Laufer

5   If I love them only when they please me (conditional love), and if I express my love to them only at those times, they will not feel genuinely loved.

My husband tells me that he loves me, but to me, words are cheap. 'I love you. I love you.' I'm sick of words. Where are the gifts?