Quotes About Validation

New Rule: People on reality shows have to quit saying, You either love me or you hate me. There's actually a third option: not giving a shit about you.

Men and boys will accept you more easily when you excel at something they value.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently. It is an awkward situation. There exists no third person to say which of us is correct.

Of all the pleasures of which the human mind is sensible, there is none equal to that which warms and expands the bosom, when listening to commendations bestowed on us by a beloved object, and are conscious of having deserved them.

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

We all like to think that we are important enough to need psychiatrists.

Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity.

I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with.

I felt if I didn't write nobody would accept me as a human being. Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing and love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have pure motives (oh-it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing. It is more fun to me, than it was when I used it solely as a love-and-admiration-getting mechanism [...]. But I still want to see it finally ritualized in print.

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

Tu patrón del dinero determinará tu economía, e incluso tu vida personal. Si eres una mujer cuyo patrón del dinero está programado para poco, lo más probable es que atraigas a un hombre que también esté programado para poco y así puedas permanecer en tu «zona de comodidad» financiera y validar tu patrón.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.

Snowbébé, you've probably forgotten by now, but... Once, you looked at my body—my hairless body—and said it was pretty. So you see, your words made me so very happy. I always thought I was unattractive...

Is it you? Yes.