self trust
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
I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever l
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Once people do not trust themselves, they are subject to easy manipulation.
Joel Kramer • The Guru Papers
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restrict themselves from or altogether avoid. We think that the more we trust ourselves, the fewer boundaries we’ll need; the opposite is true. The people who trust themselves the most are the ones who honor
... See moreKatherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
Trust is a matter of reciprocal relationships, not of prediction, risk, and reliance.
Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores • Building Trust
Some people find themselves by already knowing who they are, then moving towards that. Other people find themselves by knowing who they’re not, then moving away from that. Many of us work our whole lives at a combination of the two.