Quotes About Validation

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list

El fracaso es cuando les das la razón a tus enemigos al confirmarles que hacían bien en tenerte en la lista negra.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Unmerited compliments are the keenest reproaches.

If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.

When you really understand that God will accept you on the basis of what Christ did, you don't have to prove to the world how important you really are.

Petey: It was good, eh? [Pause.] Meg: I was the belle of the ball. Petey: Were you? Meg: Oh yes. They all said I was. Petey: I bet you were, too. Meg: Oh, it's true. I was. [Pause.] I know I was. [Curtain]

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

What do you want me to do, go shout from the housetops that I am Henry Clinton and I'm here to tell you you're all wet?

There's a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don't need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

listen-and-validate-only (on their part) venting sessions for you;

We can only make sense of ourselves in relation to someone or something. To be a person, we must be recognized as a person.

Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do

The world you're about to enter will be a different sea, with so much to do with how many likes you get on Facebook or who knows what ; where everyone is showing off rather than sharing their sadnesses and fears and what they really feel;

In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.