Quotes About Validation

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

She was so tried of begging people to love her

I always craved love. The unconditional, even unearned kind. I needed someone to say it to me. Not to sound poor me, but my mother never said it.

She was so tired of begging people to love her.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think I'd like to be known.

The words "I love you" burned in her, desperate to be given voice. BUt even more, she wanted to hear the words, to be told, just once, that she was loved.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

You know, in the past, I would've gotten yelled at for that kind of outspokenness. Now everyone listens as if what I have to say is important, and then they find ways to contradict me. I think I like the yelling better.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

Der Deutsche fährt nicht wie andere Menschen. Er fährt, um recht zu haben.

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

We're allowed to do anything in this world until someone says we ain't allowed and that someone can back it up.

Recognition of his own value, by himself and others, was of paramount importance to the car-hire driver.

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.

The same common-sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

Wasn't that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?

At every step we take to gain the approbation of the wise, we lose something in the estimation of the vulgar.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

No. I wanted to tell you that I was proud of you." Clary slewed around to look at her mother. "You were?" Jocelyn nodded. "Of course I was. The way you stood up in front of the Clave like that. The way you showed them what you could do. You made them look at you and see the person they loved most in the world, didn't you?" "Yeah," Clary said. "How did you know?" "Because I heard them all calling out different names," Jocelyn said softly. "But I still saw you.

I am not a certified idiot—" "Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.

You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.