| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e5bae4 | Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure. | validation failure | Steven Pressfield | |
| 9bc4792 | Everyone has their love story. Everyone. It may have been a fiasco, it may have fizzled out, it may never even have got going, it may have been all in the mind, that doesn't make it any less real. Sometimes, it makes it more real. Sometimes, you see a couple, and they seem bored witless with one another, and you can't imagine them having anything in common, or why they're still living together. But it's not just habit or complacency or convention or anything like that. It's because once, they had their love story. Everyone does. It's the only story. | love-story true-love relationships love meaningful validation the-only-story julian-barnes unrequited-love | Julian Barnes | |
| 2f1e7e3 | That was the way with Casaubon's hard intellectual labours. Their most characteristic result was not the 'Key to all Mythologies', but a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited - a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage - a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing. Thus his intellectual ambition which seemed to others to have absorbed and dried him, was really no security against wounds | validation intellect | George Eliot | |
| 65b0932 | The happiness of being envied is glamour. | social-anxiety validation glamour | John Berger |