135 Quotes About Validation

In order satisfactorily to function, we depend, throughout our lives, on the presence of others who will accord us validity, identity, and reality. You cannot be anything if you are not recognized as something; in this way your being becomes dependent on the regard of somebody else. You may be confirmed, or you may be disconfirmed, and if the latter is the case, often enough and pervasively enough, you simply cease to exist as a person.

Give your children enough attention and love that they won't go around seeking love and validation from other people, that they end up saying or doing bad things to get love and attention.

The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely had gone out of him, and his person was clean and sweet, and he knew it was. He dredged up an old hatred to test himself, and he found the hatred gone. He wanted to serve his father, to give him some great gift, to perform some huge good task in honor of his father.

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Feelings are not to be suppressed or fixed — they’re to be acknowledged.

You would always find people to validate your feelings; good and bad likewise. Whom do we then depend on for our most important decisions ? Well, depends on which direction you want to go.

I didn't bare my feelings so you could explain why they were wrong. I wanted your support.