Quotes About Validation

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The ones that love us least, are the ones we'll die to please.

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

If many people love me, then I must be important.

ONE DAY, THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE IN YOU WILL TELL EVERYONE HOW THEY MET YOU

One day the people that don't even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.

When you work hard to get somewhere, it's quite nice to show people where you belong.

I thought of Patrick and the multitude of certificates on the wall of his apartment, and wondered at the male need to display achievements, like a peacock permanently shimmering his tail.

Recognize Them

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

A lot of people move around in life chronically ashamed of how they look, or how they feel, or what they said, or what they did. It's like a permanent adolescent concern. Adolescence is when you're permanently concerned about what other people think of you.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

If we care about knowledge, freedom and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social network—is the only legitimate validator of knowledge, at least in the reality-based community.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

Another thing he speaks of as matter of comfort is, that as he had approved himself to his own conscience, so he had also to the consciences of his hearers, the Corinthians, whom he now wrote to, and that they should approve of him at the day of judgment. 3.

But the fact is that we care a lot about what others think of us. The only people known to have no sociometer are psychopaths.

People are trying harder to look right than to be right.

la verdad es que nos preocupamos mucho por lo que otros piensan de nosotros. Las únicas personas que se sabe que no tienen un sociómetro son los psicópatas.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir, psychotherapist (1916-1988)