#ex

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#experience

We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work. ↗

— Ted Danson

#big #cleans #country #everyone #except

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#amazing #dreams #extraordinary #growing #growing up

Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

#experience

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#causing #complete #conflicting #during #effect

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#heavily #i #into #kid #martial

You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#either #i #physiognomy #self-conscious #sexy

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#growth #holy-spirit #self #experience

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. ↗

— Peter Straub

#terror #experience

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#created #each #explanation #gain #having