Quotes About Validation

The more our self-esteem is tied to our competency or perceived competency, the more debilitating shame will be for us, whether it's coming from us or from others.

If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

I guess I mean that nature hates a vacuum. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

He wants you to think he matters. I guess he feels like you don't.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons—money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target. You should relish the attention and the chance to prove yourself.

If it is money, you will choose a place for your apprenticeship that offers the biggest paycheck. Inevitably, in such a place you will feel greater pressures to prove yourself worthy of such pay, often before you are really ready.

If a person is measured by the regard they're shown by others, then maybe I'm not a person after all.

I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Bravo, Amir. You're a good son.

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last.

Worried, I touched the jacket's sleeve. "You think it's too much?" I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I'd had this conversation with ex-roommates before.

If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.

People only invoke history to ballast their arguments in the present." "Maybe

I guess. I just want to look as old as I am, instead of getting carded for movies.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

Être aimé sans mérite, c'est la preuve d'un vrai amour

When depressed, go and find someone to salute you.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.

I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.