Quotes about Validation

many people who go insane find in insanity a feeling of importance that they were unable to achieve in the world of reality.

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken seriously, to be validated as people who matter.

In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.

When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

When you go onstage, the process of getting you from the dressing room to the stage is all about ego.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

It is the experience of having God look you right in the eye and saying, "I love you! I approve of you!" that is the unshakable ground of our self-worth.

Dying to self does not exclude having a proper sense of self-worth, including the need to feel recognized and valued. Recognition from others is a good and proper thing. But it must not be what controls our lives. It must not become the goal of our existence. If we find that our need for recognition is consuming our thoughts and determining our behavior, then we need to move to a higher source for our sense of our personal worth. That source is, of course, God's love for us.