Quotes About Validation

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

Schroeder, do you think I'm beautiful?" "I think you're the most beautiful girl the world has ever known..." "You hate me, don't you?

Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

We only value ourselves as others value us, for it might be said that we hold ourselves in trust for others.

Ele tinha o desespero, não a coragem, para ser ele mesmo. Uma vez que você tem isso, você não pode dar errado, porque você não pode cometer nenhum erro quando as pessoas o amam por você ser você mesmo. Mas, para Kurt, não importava que as outras pessoas o amassem; ele simplesmente não se amava o bastante.

You are good," I say. "No I'm not. I'm not I'm not. I'm not," she says. "I'm no good." And then, softly to herself: "Am I?

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

On clubbers: They were all photographing themselves. In fact, that's all they seemed to be doing. Standing around in expensive clothes, snapping away with phones and cameras. One pose after another, as though they needed to prove their own existence, right there, in the moment. Crucially, this seemed to be the reason they were there in the first place. There was very little dancing. Just pouting and flashbulbs.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

You see he does not believe I am sick!

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

Our marital status is not an indicator of our worth or lovability,

You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards.

You cannot convince people to love you.

You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

We are all savages inside. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

Why do we need our men to praise and validate us in order for us to feel accomplished?

May your life someday be as awesome as you pretend it is on Instagram.

Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it.

No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.