Quotes About Validation

One of the greatest feelings in the world is to realize that the person you love most...LOVES YOU BACK!

The wrong person will make you feel used, but the right person will make you feel loved.

The most beautiful thing to hear when you tell someone you love them is not them saying I love you back but them simply replying I know you do.

Never assume that someone loves you. Wait until you get PROOF. Wait until they say it with their mouth and prove it with their actions

People crave for more respect than love, because they expect love only from few people but they want respect from everyone.

Never take for granted when people tell you everyday that you're beautiful and that they love you. Not everyone is interested in flattering you. Some mean exactly what they say.

It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking.

All girls want is to feel beautiful, be loved, and to be treated with respect.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Tell me the words I want to hear, and I'll give you the feelings that you want to feel.

bosses were all vying with each other by working later and later. It was clear that exchanging emails late at night made her colleagues and bosses feel important.

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).

It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

Keeping a stiff upper lip may be needed while around the person invalidating you, but on your own, there is every reason to be compassionate and self-­soothing. It does hurt to be invalidated.

The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.

mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.

We know a speaker has received adequate empathy when (1) we sense a release of tension, or (2) the flow of words comes to a halt.

Our need is for the other person to truly hear our pain.

It works because helping people be "right" is more productive than proving them "wrong.