Quotes About Validation

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.

You never know if they like you for who you are or what you are. Would he love me or the money?

I'd never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.

your enoughness is off the charts.

Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.

When people tell you that you aren't something or you can't accomplish your dreams, you can either cry about it or prove them wrong.

I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.

You don't have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn't see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.

Maybe you yhink you're not perfect, not pretty enough, or smart enough, but for some guy, you're pefect just the way you are.that's your perfect man.

Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.

All I wanted was for my mom to say, 'I love you, and I'm here for you.' I never got that.

Self worth comes from loving yourself and not from what others may think of you.

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Don't give explanation to anyone because who believes you, no need and who do not will not agree.

I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I'd like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I'd like you to say I'm worth it.

Ona stops laughing, barely. Do you think that's true, she asks, that it doesn't matter what you think? I blush. Maul my own head. She continues: How would you feel if in your entire lifetime it had never mattered what you thought?

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.

Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.

I've read articles by child psychologists who have identified lack of self-esteem as the evil at the root of so much bad, even criminal behavior. I don't know if that's right. But even if it is, I don't believe Belle and Joe will gain self-esteem by constantly being told they're special just for being there.

Yes. That's it. Speaking about it to others would have made it real. It would have become a fact. Their reaction, their responses, their words -- it would all tell me that the terrible thing had happened. That I wasn't just imagining it.