How to Listen, Hear, and Validate Quotes

“Validation is about affirming someone else’s emotional reality, but it’s also about recognizing that they live in a completely different world to you, and inhabit a perspective entirely separate from your own. If you can undertake any conversation with the spirit of validation, you are able to respect and honor the fact that the other person is not you, and doesn’t think like you. Validation encourages deeper understanding. Not only will this make you a better communicator, but it will expand your world view, and you may even learn something in the process.”
― Patrick King, How to Listen, Hear, and Validate: Break Through Invisible Barriers and Transform Your Relationships

“I matter as much as anyone else, and my perspective is valid. My thoughts, feelings and emotions are mine and are not wrong.”
― Patrick King, How to Listen, Hear, and Validate: Break Through Invisible Barriers and Transform Your Relationships