#confidence

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life." (Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009) ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#creative-process #self-confidence #self-trust #writing #life

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#worry

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#happiness #happy-life #life-coach #life-coaching #self-confidence

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-esteem #life

Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections. ↗

— Patrice Hannon

#life

I know that mirrors give us a false sense of confidence.” I continued. “The reflection that we see everyday has nothing to do with how others see us. The glass lies. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#mirror #perception #self-image #perception

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#contentment #perception #self-acceptance #self-assurance #self-confidence

Carry the confidence. ↗

— Diane Chamberlain

#confidence #therapy #life

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#evidence #science #science

The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again—or of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#self-awareness #self-confidence #self-empowerment #trauma #traumatic-epiphonies