Quotes About Validation

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did.

They had looked at me like I was a real girl, not just somebody's little sister.

It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them that you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.

If someone is giving you a compliment, I don't think they should have to tell you they're giving you one; it should probably be obvious to the person receiving it.

Mairi and Hadley and that kind of girl decide you're not good enough, you never will be. You just won't. And the sooner you realize that, the better. Sherilyn has never figured it out. She's so eager to please and imitate that she ends up going overboard. Like the way her clothes never look right. Mrs. Tallini still picks her school

Like different how?" I know I'm digging for a compliment, but I don't care.

I used to only care about what everyone thought of me, but not anymore. Now I only care about what the people I love think of me, and everyone else can rot in hell!

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two.

When people are complimented on what they're wearing, they accept as if it was about them. "Nice tie." "Thank you very much!" That's the job of clothes: to get compliments, because it's hard to get them based on human qualities. No matter how nice you are, nobody will say, "Nice person." It's easier to be a bastard and match the colors up.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever she looked at me, she had to let me know that she knew. That was her mission in life.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts.

Requirements must be falsifiable—that is, it must be possible to demonstrate when a requirement has not been met.

The burden of proof is not on Astrology to prove that it does work. The burden of proof is on skeptics and cynics to give us evidence that would dissuade the millions of people who believe in it to go the other way.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.