Quotes About Validation

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

they can tell you that you are the most horrible human being on earth—but what matters is what you think about yourself.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so.

The more people we can find to agree with our side of the story, the more justified we will feel in believing that side of the story.

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

The trouble with Goodreads is that they never authenticate these quotations of famous people.

No one has ever questioned the credentials of a critic who writes a rave notice.

O que você traz neste mundo não tem nenhuma importância - replicou meu companheiro com amargura. - A questão é o que os outros acreditam que você fez.

Erin, you are not nothing. You are the most beautiful person I have ever known. V'Aidan

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.

Nothing creates untruth in you as the wish to please.

Sarei davvero una bella scema se pensassi che le persone hanno diritto all'amore degli altri; in vita mia ho meritato più amore e ne ho avuto meno di chiunque conosca.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are." — Dr. Kat Hunter

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes.

The French had handed the information from Schmidt to the Poles because they believed it to be of no value, but the Poles had proved them wrong.

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.

The validity of the cook's work is to be found only in the mouths of those at her table; she needs their approbation, demands that they appreciate her dishes and call for second helpings; she is upset if they are not hungry, to the point that one wonders whether the fried potatoes are for her husband or her husband for the fried potatoes.