Quotes About Validation

As you go through life, don't let your feelings—real as they are—invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

Why are we so eager to prove to the world that we are the best at what we do and care not for why or who we are? How

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.

What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!

This was all he wanted now. Some sign that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time needed to think all the things that must be thought.

What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty, his eyes afire with admiration and cries, "That new story of yours was fine, really wonderful!" Then and only then is writing worthwhile. Quite

We all need someone higher, wiser, older to tell us we're not crazy after all, that what we're doing is all right.

I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.

And you can't let crazy people decide whether you're crazy or not, can you?

How do you know your Colossus is the genuine article in the first place? I read his mind. I matched his DNA. I smelled him. I also did that.

Our great American philosopher William James has said - We have as many personalities as there are people who know us. To which I would add We have no personalities unless there are people who know us. Unless there are people we hope to convince that we deserve to exist.

I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.

She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her, and love of her.

I am snatching at things to prove my life.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others or position in life will keep us permanently secure. The outside approval we seek becomes an addiction. We work to get approval and it feels good for a short while; then we find that we need more and more. True freedom never comes until we fully realize that we don't need to struggle to get from others what God freely gives us: love, acceptance, approval, security, worth, and value.

If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in Christ, not in what others say.

Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others.

You must believe what God's Word says about you more than you believe what others say or what your feelings or own mind says.

There are two types of approval: one is from people, and the other is from God. We want people to approve of us, but if we become addicted to their approval, if we have to have it and are ready to do whatever they demand to get it, we lose our freedom. If we trust God for approval, we are freed from the addiction of approval.

Live to please God, not people. You have His approval, and that is all you really need!

Succumbing to a lifetime of guilt is just another form of approval addiction. ARE

When you know that God likes you, then you're not worried so much about what everybody else thinks.

We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.