#confidence

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#death #joy #life #mindfulness #rebirth

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence. ↗

— Linda Vester

#authority #clear #confidence #emotional #entitled

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#individuality #insecurity #imagination

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

It’s impossible,” he snapped. “Why?” “Because I’m Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can’t be celibate. Everyone knows that. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#confidence #love #rake #love

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction. ↗

— Jetta Carleton

#conviction #egotism #inspirational #inspirational

Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility! ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#love #self-confidence #self-esteem #togetherness #friendship

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. ↗

— Breece D'J Pancake

#confidence #writing-life #life