Quotes About Validation

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

We're like drunks in a barroom. No one's listening because everyone is too busy thinking about what they're going to say next, and absolutely prove that the current speaker is so full of shit he squeaks.

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, you're going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I'm sorry to say you're going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life.

Sometimes another person's fear tells you that everything you're about to do is right.

We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

When someone else doesn't believein you or your dreams, rememberit's about them, not you.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

A director standing by his film rejected by the audience is like him telling a girl 'I love myself and I don't care if you don't love me'.

Never let someone's opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love?

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.

You're learning to be nourished by the love you give, not by the validation offered in response to your giving.