While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?. . . No other human institution comes close.
The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.
You grow up watching certain films or admiring certain filmmakers, and to write a love letter to one and have them validate it, it's extraordinary.
I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance.
Affirmation literally means to validate or confirm. So when we think a thought over and over again, we are validating or confirming it as the truth.
Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.
I'M EMBARRASSED because the looting, violent protests, and law breaking only confirm, and in the minds of many, validate, the stereotypes and thus the inferior treatment.
If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.
This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
Whatever belief I am practicing the Law of Attraction will validate with evidence.
I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.
You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus. . . trying to get somebody to validate it for you.
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter. ' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
