Quotes About Validation

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

It is a fact that I don't get enough love, I never did get enough love

I know, I said, but it scares me. It reminds me of my father. I'm not your father, said Mark. Repeat after me, 'Mark Feldman is not my father.' Mark Feldman is not my father, I said. Am I fat? said Mark. No, I said. Am I bald? No. Do I smell of Dr. Scholl's foot pads? No, I said. I rest my case, said Mark.

A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

If I didn't say it, how do you know?" "When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it." She looked up at him, eyes drenched. "And I couldn't love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn't know how right it is to be with you if I didn't know you loved me.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

You want the truth? I liked it. It's good for the ego for a man to have a woman cry over him.

Yes. Theo, being a man of few words, just told me it was cool.

Make you wonder, when you're feeling low, what it is about yourself they can't love. I know how it is, and how hard it is to accept someone who should love you absolutely, doesn't. Or not enough. But it wasn't me, and it wasn't you. It was them, the lack in them.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing.

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

We are remembered for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do.

We are remember e for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot so.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are. However you describe yourself becomes proof that you're the ideal candidate. This is true in journalism, and in life.

Once people decide they want you to do something, they don't really care what your qualifications are.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.

A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.