Quotes About Validation

what we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.

Why?" I asked, "What are you looking for?" There was a short silence. And Toto softly said, "I want to see if people like me.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill

He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.

compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.

available in the Republic had been paltry, a telephone, a flat with some air and light, the all-important permission to travel, but perhaps no paltrier than having x number of followers on Twitter, a much-liked Facebook profile, and the occasional four-minute spot on CNBC.

Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno consigue manipular a los demás para gustarles, será difícil no sentir cierto desprecio por esas personas, ya que han caído en el engaño.

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

We stopped laughing, I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: Do you like me?

and when is enough proof enough?

Can't you even tell me if I'm on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don't tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

la mayoría de la gente no se preocupa por el tema de si quiere o no, sólo se preocupa sobre si es querido y si se le demuestra el amor.

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

The European and the North American consider that a book that has been awarded any kind of prize must be good; the Argentine allows for the possibility that the book might not be bad, despite the prize.

If you don't share your stories with other people. do they even count? If you don't share your stories, do they even need an ending? I know, it's that stupid if a tree falls in the forest sort of question, but I mean it.

Mrs. Delson had called it "promising", which I took to mean it was promising. But you eventually realise something if you're inundated with empty compliments like that- You've got loads of potential, Alistair! You've got the makings of someone great, Alistair! It's all part of a comforting but dishonest language that's used to encourage, but not to praise.

And they say: 'None shall enter Paradise unless he be a Jew or a Christian.' Those are their (vain) desires. Say: 'Produce your proof if ye are truthful.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

What I didn't like was how people talked to me now that I was no longer single; they were nicer. Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation, like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.

We often favor feeling right, over being right.

I love attention. I can't stand not having it. It just has to be the right kind.