Quotes About Validation

So concerned about wearing the right things, saying the right things, being friends with the right people.

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own the place where we live and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Talented people want recognition and respect for their skills and their achievements even more than they want money. They need and appreciate acceptance and respect.

They'll not blame me. They'll not object to me. They'll not mind what I do, if it's wrong. I'm only Mr. Dick.

A person is never known till a person is proved.

Friend, take your focus off of what you think—or what others think about you—and embrace what the Father says. No doubt your self-esteem will automatically improve because God's opinion is the only one that really counts—forever.

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

That's…that's exactly

Sometimes they speak words that cut or bruise my soul, telling me I am unlovely and unlovable—a message I am unaccountably ready to believe. They may be the voices of people close to me, the culture around me, the advertising I can't escape, religion, education, or of my own innate pride or insecurities.

It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.

If you have to ask for respect, you're not gonna get it.

If you have to tell people you're important," Evan said, "then you're not important.

If the relationship you had in the past or the one you have now is with a person or people who consistently make you feel worthless, you are being abused.

Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: "I am not enough." A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that "I can't feel good if you don't feel good.

We attend a postmodern meeting, and everyone leaves happy because everyone at the meeting was able to express himself or herself, even if no decisions were made. We give equal awards to our kids so nobody feels left out. Our news media is more concerned with the question, "How did that make you feel?" than any other.

Ansiábamos tu aprobación. Sorprende la psique infantil, en hambre permanente de afecto a pesar del maltrato.

You'll waste a lot less time worrying about what others think of you if only you realized how seldom they do.' To this we might add Albert Camus' wise words: 'To be happy one must not be too concerned with the opinion of others. One should pursue one's goals single-mindedly, with a quiet confidence, without thinking of others.

the difference between constantly feeling you have to prove yourself, and feeling free to improve yourself.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree