relationship with self

Once people do not trust themselves, they are subject to easy manipulation.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.

“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are.”

— Fernando Pessoa