Quotes About Validation

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us. And then we wake up at age seventeen or twenty-five or thirty-seven and realize we don't know the last time we've lived life only to please ourselves

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us. And then we wake up at age seventeen or twenty-five or thirty-seven and realize we don't know the last time we've lived life only to please ourselves.

you don't value me, then I must not be valuable.

If you don't value me, then I must not be valuable.

It's hard to pinpoint the precise moment when we internalize others' assessments; it's usually not just a single experience but rather a series of moments that bruise the spirit and lead us to distrust ourselves and those around us.

Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.

People can be cheering for you, Cleo, and also thinking you're starting to lose your mind. Two things can be true at once.

My parents think so. And my parents have a very annoying habit of being right

Let people judge you. It never changes the truth.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

They knew that it was not their faith that validated Christ's resurrection, as many of today's modern theologians teach and preach, but that it was his physical resurrection that validated their faith.

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't oke enough holes to drain it dry.

Name, please?" he says, or actually, snaps; it sounded way more like a snap, like he's in a big hurry or something. "Um, Danika." I nod. "Danika Kavanaugh?" I say it like a question, as though I'm looking to him to confirm my own name. I roll my eyes and shake my head. Nice to know I'm as big a dork in the UK as I was in the U.S.

Cuéntame cosas de las japonesas. (...) -Tú estás aquí, me estás mirando. Ellas, en cambio, siempre están preguntando si gustan. Solo piensan en sí mismas. (...) A mis amigos y a mí, nos parece que para esas chicas solo somos espejos.

Si no te quieren como tú quieres que te quieran, ¿qué importa que te quieran?

Being praised constantly weakens you.

We struggle so much with wanting everybody to like us, we weaken ourselves at times.

I came into the Indian team and was touted as someone who did well only against weaker oppositions. There were doubts creeping into my game. I was looking for support, someone to put an arm around my shoulder and say I am good and I belong to this place. Virender Sehwag is that someone for me.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Sometimes, when we play against weaker teams, everyone says, 'Oh, you won because you played weaker teams.'

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.