self trust

If you think you have to act a certain way in order to be loved, you’re not actually being loved

You’re being loved for someone you’re pretending to be, and that’s not being loved.

Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us There’s even wisdom in the words themselves

Dylan O'Sullivan x.com

you don’t build self trust by monitoring yourself constantly to see if you’re trustworthy

scott • Tweet

one of the most exhausting habits, maybe even addictions, is the desire to want to be seen accurately, judged correctly, understood perfectly

there is power in letting distortion exist

when the need to be understood loosens, the energy returns to what actually wants to be made

Leona • Tweet

Trust is a matter of reciprocal relationships, not of prediction, risk, and reliance.

Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores • Building Trust

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.

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

Tricia Pickren • Tweet

"Your worst sin is that you've destroyed and betrayed yourself for the Algorithm."

- Dostoevsky, 2024

charlie ️ • Tweet

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