Quotes About Validation

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. Look

If I am doing the best I can and people don't approve, what they think will have to be between them and God. I

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

always remember that your Censor's negative opinions are not the truth.

Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

El círculo vicioso del insulto interior es terrible: cuánto más te castigues más ansioso o deprimido estarás y menor será tu rendimiento, por lo que confirmarás tu incapacidad y nuevamente te tratarás mal. La involución "perfecta". Sobregeneralizar

Premisa liberadora IX. Someterte al "qué dirán" es una forma de esclavitud socialmente aceptada

al estar excesivamente atentos a los rechazos descubren "más rechazos" de lo normal:67 "el que busca, encuentra".

It is attention, really, that is the big resource; it is being acknowledged. It is being told you did a great job.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

had it easy. Because he didn't have to run a ministry or manage a congregation, he was free to engage people exactly as he found them. He didn't have to make them do anything for him; thus, he was free to love them and they were free to respond to that love or reject it. He didn't need their tithes to pay his salary, their attendance to validate his ego, or their time to fill out his program.

I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. "Well? Can you see me?" "Yes, Bob, I can see you." She said my name. Bob. It makes me feel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, seen. And heard. Like I'm a person. Or whatever I am. I'm glad I'm not invisible after all.

And Kris." Thorne added. "Don't define yourself by what you read in the cold context of online know-it-all websites.

Feelings do not require justification.

This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

I always felt like whatever I achieved - grades, salaries, promotions, even my wife and children - was a mistake. Like I had somehow fooled everyone into thinking I was worthy of what they'd given me.

Am I a good mother? The best mother you could ever want?

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions.

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.