Self Confirmation Quotes

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

I feel like listening to sad songs are a way of narrating your life and confirming your identity.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

Random forays into the history of political language with undue regard for the detail of historical context all too often end up as exercises in self confirmation.