Quotes About Validation

Could my problem have been that I was looking for validation in the wrong places all along?

I think you spend your life expecting to be disappointed, so when someone hurts you just a tiny bit, you can say: there I was right all along...You like being right.

Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

AI can not make you an expert or an authority. AI can only make you appear to be an expert or an authority.

Are you dancing like a puppet for false popularity or distributing authentic content for true authority?

Publishing a book does not make you and authority or an expert. Authorship does not equal authority.

Stop spending money to be nominated for worthless awards with no substance and no worth to your career. If you have to spend money to be nominated for an award and then spend the time to push all your friends and fans to vote for you to win that award, it is not worth it and it is not going to help you in anyway whatsoever in the long run.

Daisy can't bear shutting off her Instagram space. What would she have left? She'd have no daily connection, no love, hearts, validation. She needs it all so badly just to keep going. Her life would be so empty. Lonely. Why can't she be more like the old schoolgirl-teen Daisy?

Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"),

I want some sign of the scar tissue left behind. I want to know, in the end, that I mattered.

Olakšanje je izgovoriti istinu i zbog toga biti voljen, a ne prezren.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

I just needed to hear someone else say it. I do deserve better.

because everyone knew that saying it out loud made it true.

Because it's easier than facing the fact that I'm never quite . . . enough for someone.

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear no often enough.

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear "no" often enough.

Psychics. I love to prove you wrong.

Identifying with success makes those doing the identifying seem successful themselves. The day United falter, many of these supporters will doubtless take their affiliation with them to Real Madrid or Barcelona or whoever it is that can provide them anew with a vicarious sense of worth.

She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'. But the truth of the matter is far more revealing. It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.

A wife who desires to successfully communicate with her husband must encrypt every word to him with this tone: You are a good man. I'm proud of you, and I'm so proud to be your wife. You have what it takes, and I believe in you. When words to him are spoken with that tone, it meets his deepest need for honor as it values and comforts him.