#confide

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#spiritual #teacher

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#self-confidence #self-doubt #enemy

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ↗

— George Eliot

#confidences #friends #friends

A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond. ↗

— Solange nicole

#growth #self-confidence #self-esteem #self-worth #solange

And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#self-confidence #london

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#confidence #lamp #community

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#confidence

The only power that exists is inside ourselves. ↗

— Anne Rice

#confidence

Play to your strengths." "I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself. "Excuse me," growled Moody, "you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. Think now. What are you best at? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#strengths #confidence

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#confidence