Quotes About Validation

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

There's nothing like a hit movie to make you think you're one of the chosen people. It's amazing how smart we are the morning after a hit opens.

Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won't ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.

I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.

I do not live for people, for what they think, for them to say that I'm nice, good, the best, perfect. Everyone has their opinion. And I respect that.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

She turned her face to me. 'Can you tell I've been crying?' For the gazillionth time, no. You look fine.' Shit. I knew it. I look terrible.' 'Aphrodite! I just said you look fine.' 'Yeah, well, fine is fine for most people. For me it's terrible.

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

Part of my attraction to her is she actually believes i'm beautiful and since I don't have eyes of my own I rely on her to tell me who I am.

I was so tired of being touched and then forgotten, of hearing my name spoken and then not, as if I were only real when I was looked at, and just something to forget after that, like you never remember the flowers you toss away.

And she wondered, as she had often wondered before, if Richard liked her only because she was more sympathetic with his ambitions than anyone else he happened to know now, and because he felt her criticism was a help to him.

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are. That determines your character. That is the most significant thing about you.