Quotes About Validation

I go on Twitter and MySpace and I see all the love, and that's a big help.

We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names.

It's really humbling to be acknowledged by such established names like CMT and Billboard.

If you tell a narcissist that someone is less than them in any way, they feel gratified; they feel very good about that.

We tell ourselves, It's important to get a sense of what people are saying about me.' But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you.

I can understand criticism coming from people who have met me, but it is off-putting to hear nasty things about myself from people I have never met or even seen in life.

When we are proud of someone, they bask in the glow of our appreciation, as do we when we are appreciated.

Why? Why did Mother always love you more? Because she respected me. She saw in me the will to conquer my fears without doubting myself. You never had that.

He needed to know she wanted to be with him. He needed to know someone loved him. He didn't believe himself worthy of love, so he had a difficult time believing she really wanted to be with him.

Since no one's ever fallen in love with me, I think now's a good time. I can go out knowing someone thought I was worth that.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.

Girls—and boys—strike up conversations, only to reveal that they don't just like you for your mind or even—this is especially hurtful—for your body.

In a society in which the dream of success has been drained of any meaning beyond itself, men have nothing against which to measure their achievements except the achievements of others.

I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.

Now why [...] should I worry about what people say when my own father call me a whore?

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse); y si en vez de un solo otro son cien o mil, o diez mil, mucho mejor, se siente completamente realizado.

Porque el ser humano, para saber quién es, necesita la mirada del otro, y cuanto más le ama y le admira el otro, más se reconoce (o cree reconocerse);

You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.

Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.

in a group that she was convinced were all better than her

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved

Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

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