Quotes about Validation

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

By accepting people you're not condoning their weakness or agreeing with their opinion; you're simply affirming their intrinsic worth.

In other words, when we truly love others without condition, without strings, we help them feel secure and safe and validated and affirmed in their essential worth, identity, and integrity. Their natural growth process is encouraged. We make it easier for them to live the laws of life—cooperation, contribution, self-discipline, integrity—and to discover and live true to the highest and best within them.

Ironically, you'll find that as you care less about what others think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves and their worlds, including their relationship with you.

our son's "socially impressive" accomplishments were more a serendipitous expression of the feelings he had about himself than merely a response to social reward.

If our sense of emotional worth comes primarily from our marriage, then we become highly dependent upon that relationship.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.

You get about 20 people in the audience calling you a cheat. It hurts your feelings.