Quotes About Validation

On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes.

Because you happen to be a writer doesn't mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.

Then, if you have good luck and people seem to like what you do, and you actually get to get paid for it, and get to see your stuff professionally typeset and bound and blurbed and reviewed and even (once) being read on the AM subway by a pretty girl you don't even know, it seems to make it even more fun. For a while.

Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.

We love you because you are you." "It is OK to like yourself." "Don't measure yourself by what others accomplish.

And you wonder, what's wrong with me? Will anyone beautiful want me?

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

incessant , adj . The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated.

If your beauty is unquestioned, so many other things can go unquestioned as well.

The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved. For some people, it doesn't matter who's on the other end.

I look for that confirmation that if I didn't have you, I'd still be a person someone would want.

This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us.

you will rip yourself to shreds to prove that I am worth loving. you will not hear the chorus of everyone I've let down

am always happiest when I am just attractive enough. Meaning: other people won't find me unattractive. Meaning: I make a positive impression. Meaning: my life is not defined by my attractiveness, because that brings its own perils as well as its own rewards.

Esto es lo que no admitimos sobre primeros besos: una de las cosas más gratificantes de ellos es que son la prueba, la prueba real, de que la otra persona nos quiere besar.

Esto es lo que no admitimos sobre los primeros besos: una de las cosas más gratificantes acerca de ellos es que son la prueba, la prueba real, de que la otra persona realmente quiere besarnos. Somos deseables y deseamos. Cada beso importante implica un reconocimiento.

You can say things over and over to yourself, but the moment you say them out loud to someone else, they become something different, like you're taking a fear and giving it a solid shape so it can actually hurt you. And when someone else says the things you're saying in your head—that has the same effect. It should feel better to be sharing it, but it also makes it less deniable.

I notice you. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

Esto sucedió antes de que nos conociéramos, antes de que encontrase a alguien que lo acogiera y le dijera que no había nada malo en él.

What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known?

Hugh consoled me, saying, Don't let it get to you. There are plenty of things you're good at. When asked for some examples, he listed vacuuming and naming stuffed animals. He says he can probably come up with a few more, but he'll need some time to think.