Validate Feelings Quotes & Sayings

Co-dependency essentially revolves around the sentence: "I am not enough." A co-dependent person will always need another person to validate their worth, their feelings, their ideas and even their existence. This either shows itself as a need to manipulate and control surroundings; or as a need to bend over backwards to make other people feel good, the reason being that "I can't feel good if you don't feel good. — Gudjon Bergmann

Listening is a gift of spiritual significance that you can learn to give to others. When you listen, you give one a sense of importance, hope and love that he or she may not receive any other way. Through listening, we nurture and validate the feelings one has, especially when he or she experiences difficulties in life. — H. Norman Wright

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stuart Mill

Cord followed up with, "I like it here, but it's beginning to feel creepy. Does anyone else think it's creepy?"
"You're talking to a bunch of guys," Yul said. "No one here is going to validate your feelings." She tossed sand at him. — Neal Stephenson

My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before. — Hunter Hayes

(In part, quoting Robert Keegan from Harvard):'When we take the risk of really witnessing another human being, when we validate their human experience, we risk becoming recruited to their welfare.' I allow my empathy to be engaged, and once it is - because my feelings help teach me what my values are - I'm on the path for which there is no return. I am inexorably an advocate when I allow my empathy to be engaged. — Ashley Judd

Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings. — Dan Harris

We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free. — Laure Lacornette

Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you're not alone. — Paula Gruben

You may have been lost in a dark world but it is up to you to shine a light so bright you can see properly. — Kia Carrington-Russell

When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything. — Carlos Castaneda