"I do the splits perfectly in PE. I lose half a pound in two days. I get the spinach and pig-meat frittata from the lo-carb section for lunch. And no-one else knows. I mentally construct a MyFace statu..."
- Louise O'Neill
"Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated."
- Jill Bolte Taylor
"Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within."
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
"Someone can tell you all your life that you’re inferior, but it doesn’t matter until you accept it and allow for validation. Once validation takes place, it’s then that the colonial malaise sets in li..."
- M.B. Dallocchio
"It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder."
- Marlene Steinberg
"It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation."
- Aditya Ajmera
"There are times to listen to the people that believe in you during those days you don't believe in yourself. Sometimes you look in the mirror and it's fogged up; the person looking back a blurred imag..."
- Lee Goff
"Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears."
- Kathleen Grissom
"You don’t learn through sales calls, it’s not customer validation."
- Jason Cohen
"All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation."
- Kimberly Giles