Quotes about Validation

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

True freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes because we know we are loveable and good enough.

You are lovable. You are good. It is so good that you exist.

The problem was that I wasn't truly free. Freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes. We are to be content to be popular with him alone.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Our self-image soars with a compliment and is devastated by a criticism.

It never seems like enough. We consistently feel inferior. Many of us know the experience of being approved for what we do. Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

Few of us know the experience of being loved for being just who we are.

If anything, things are even more difficult for Christian artists. Some churches do not consider art a serious way to serve God. Others deny that Christians in the arts have a legitimate calling. As a result, Christian artists often feel like they have to justify their existence. Rather than providing a community of support, some churches surround them with a climate of suspicion.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

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

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.