Quotes About Validation

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I don't care what you think as long as it's about me.

El pleno derecho de existir sólo lo pueden tener los viejos. Los niños tiene que probar primer que lo merecen: sobreviviendo.

There was no point in anything. No pleasure in being good and clever either, if there was no one to praise and be proud of me. But that felt dangerously close to self-pity, and I would not give in to self-pity.

Almost the entire world relies on other people's opinions to tell them what to think.

I knew what he was thinking. Thanks to Mickey, I had been elevated from child-who-can't-learn-to-swim to child genius. The

You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

Think of how we, as adults, respond to a person who builds on our strengths. If somebody very important to us thinks we're the greatest thing since remote controls, we will perform like gangbusters for that person. But if that important person thinks we're the scum of the earth, we will probably never prove him or her wrong.

He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying.

En las redes sociales, un resultado elevado de narcisismo estaría correlacionado con una actividad intensa en el reclutamiento de gran número de «amigos» o de seguidores para dar una imagen grandiosa de uno mismo, sin tratar de desarrollar relaciones personales.

Many Christians would prefer to hear "What a great guy" from the crowd rather than "Well done, good and faithful servant" from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.

And worse than the hurt of not being someone special is the shame of it, the shame of how much I want that, to be someone special.

These days the only time people get to feel appreciated by others or hear something good about themselves is when they're being read their eulogies.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

I've never won an award for anything, and I think it's weird. I mean, that's really cool but it's strange to think you could get an award for acting. I always thought that was strange.

Bear in mind the words "I matter" as a reminder that your needs are as worthy of consideration as anyone else's. Don't deny your needs and preferences in order to be liked or to find approval.

the only thing worthy of joy is a situation where not only the individual but also society as a whole wages a constant battle for self-justification.

Every day I must prove to myself I am a writer. The knowledge goes away in my sleep. What I wrote yesterday was paltry, meager, so flawed it is barely anything. Or, if it is good, I am no longer the person who could write it.