Quotes About Validation

If you haven't got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.

Popularidad es cuando tú le agradas a otras personas. La Felicidad es cuando tú te agradas a ti mismo.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.

Naw, I wasn't going to sell my principles for them. I wanted to be accepted as a good musician and that didn't call for no grinning, but just being able to play the horn good. And that's what I did then and now. Critics can take that or leave it.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

She would always believe that he was someone else, that he wasn't himself but some fanciful idea of a foreign person; she would always feel like she was someone special because she had condescended to be with someone everyone else hated. His presence would prove to the world that she was a good person, an educated person, a liberal person.

The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him - feelings without any verification.

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

People don't say "Give me your honest opinion" because they want an honest opinion. They say it because it's rude to say "Please tell me I'm amazing.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it. (P.220)

Teenage girls, please don't worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

Every kid wants approval, but my desire to be well liked was central to my personality.

confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted. The slightly nervous asking of your phone number. The text message asking you to dinner. The simple overture of wanting me can satisfy my ego for a good long time.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

A bunch of unearned trophies around the house would make me hooked on awards, which is bad in general, but especially bad if you don't deserve them. The whole experience made me want to win another trophy, but win it for actually doing something great.

There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.

Not really, no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz? What are you talking about, you perfect thing. You can see that I'm perfect?

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

Was it wrong to say something no one believed, even if it was right? Did he have to just sit there and take it when no one agreed with him?