Quotes About Validation

Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

You love me. Real or not real?

everybody is slapping me on the back and cheering and congratulating me. But it doesn't seem real. "There must be a mistake. How . . . how could

You love me. Real or not real? Real.

It was pathetic, but he needed every drop of approval he could get.

What if . . . What if I am stupid? Like people say?

What if . . . What if I am stupid? ...

I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!

When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

It's nice to walk into a club and see your picture. Then you know you've done something good.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Fan experiences are special. They make me feel that I must have done something good enough to receive so much love from so many people.

I have this thing called my 'Post It People': they're my closest family members. Those are the ones who count. The ones who I put their word as something special to me. So if they're all like, 'No you're good, we love you, we know who you are as a person,' then I don't take anything else personally, 'cause those are the ones who matter - my family.

I feel like people who are older have lived longer and it's harder to impress them. So I always feel super flattered when I see an older couple at my show. I'm like, okay, I must be doing something special.

It's nice to be right sometimes.

Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.