Quotes About Validation

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

Perhaps it is easier For others To believe in you Than it is To believe In yourself.

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

you only set out to prove what you have already decided to believe.

El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente

I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.

The problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people.

I think it's bad when a boy looks at a fork and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands […] I need to know that these people exist

For the rest of the school year, the teachers treated me different and gave me better grades even though I didn't get any smarter.

just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.

Feelings are not something to which one does or does not have rights.

Perhaps narcissism is best defined as a need to look on other people as mirrored surfaces who satisfy us only when they reflect back a loving or admiring image of ourselves. When we look into another's eyes, in other words, we are not looking to see who they are, but how we are reflected in their eyes. By this definition, which of us can honestly disown our share of narcissism?

I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Cada vez que observamos novos experimentos coincidirem com as previsões, a teoria sobrevive e nossa confiança nela aumenta; porém, se em algum momento uma nova observação a contradiz, temos de abandonar a teoria ou modificá-la. Pelo

I have spent a good many years since?too many, I think?being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?