Quotes About Validation

Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved.

Men den, som skall bli diktare, är ingenting alls annat än ett åtlöje för Gud och människor, förrän han redan blivit erkänd och berömd. Därför måste han under alla de långa läroåren hänga en falsk skylt över sin dörr och låtsas sysselsätta sig med något som människorna anser aktningsvärt.

And if it stings a little that he admires me primarily for my ruthlessness, well, I suppose there should be some comfort that he admires me at all.

Deny it, then," I yell. "Deny me!" He cannot, of course, so he does not.

Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

You were always good,' he says, looking down at me. 'Just never good enough.

The Roach clasps his hand on the back of my neck with a laugh. 'You did good, kid, you know that? You came out of the sea even tougher than you went in.' I have to look down because I am surprised by how much I wanted to hear someone say that. When I glance back up, Cardan is watching me carefully. He looks stricken. I shake my head, to keep him from saying whatever he's thinking.

You were always good," he says, looking down at me. "Just never good enough.

Maybe it isn't the worst thing to want to be loved, even if you're not.

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

El error de los hombres superiores es gastar los años de su juventud en hacerse dignos de la estimación de los demás.

If she packaged the perfect Facebook life, maybe she would start to believe it herself.

Was there anything better than to be wanted? Was that all anyone really needed?

She was a far better mother when she had an audience.

I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.

But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic.

She'd never wanted his gratitude, just his acknowledgment. Just once.

both responded like thirsty plants to water when it came to parental approval.

It's no big deal. It is a big deal. They have no right to make you feel that way. Or, just ignore it, one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

She couldn't shake the feeling that if she didn't record this moment on her phone then it wasn't really happening, it didn't count

And, Madeline, it infuriates me that I found it so devastating. It infuriates me that he had that power over me. I look in the mirror each day, and I think, I'm not overweight any more, but he's right, I'm still ugly. Intellectually I know I'm not ugly, I'm perfectly acceptable. But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic.

She was generally slightly resentful of people who made it obvious they didn't care less whether you liked them or not, because she herself was conscious of an unattractive need to please.

The only recognition you got for surviving a night like that came from other mothers. Only they understood the epic nature of your trivial achievements.