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I by not doing, not by doing, lost
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Succeeding is performing at your best when your best is required
Waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is a proof of some existence other than ours. That is what one wants to be sure of ...
On doing what you want to do.
giving you time to think, because I know you'll search for the truth and when you find it, it'll lead you back to me.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
As subjects, we all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. We cannot believe that it is finished, that we are 'finished,' even though we may say so; we expect another chapter, another installment, tomorrow or next week.
We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.
Going after what I believe in.-- Paulo Coelho
To sleep perchance to dream
Persuaded, therefore, that ere long some ingenious
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
With barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises
Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.
It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
I am now ... on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern ... But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vindication is the privilege of the victorious
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
What I am to be, I am now becoming.
Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.
if we do not venture somebody else will;
Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck. [p. 138]
confidence is acquired, developed.
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
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A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Belonging to another man and therefore not even a little bit to him.
When we are confident, all we need is a little support.
If there is one thing in which I hold complete confidence, it is the conviction of my own desirability.
When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt.
the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence
Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.
I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
Affirmation: I know myself, I trust myself, I believe in myself, and I know that I can only do this for myself.
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
What we expect, that we find.
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.
The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2) getting curious about the story behind the feelings--what emotions we're experiencing and how they are connected to our thoughts and behaviors.
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.
So you will be... What you 'will' to be-- James Allen
Becoming is better than being
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.
Certainty becomes you.
It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for.
I find a sufficiency of satisfaction in my own heart, through the grace of Christ that is in me. Though I have not outward comforts and worldly conveniences to supply my necessities, yet I have a sufficient portion between Christ and my soul abundantly to satisfy me in every condition.
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.
This world stands on the foundation of the relationship between the support and the support-taker. If the support is removed, the support-taker will be released.
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
Being is the great explainer.
Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming.
Learning through doing.
Unconfirmed suspicion tends, over time, to become willful, fallacious, and prey to the vicissitudes of mood - it acquires all the qualities of common superstition - and
To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift
One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere.
The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
How does thee like thyself?
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
From a mass of conclusions men often come to wavering and doubt; and who knows not how easily the mind slips from doubt to error?
When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.
certainty makes you beautiful and uncertainty makes you dutiful.
Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.
For one to grasp, whatever be his object, sov'reign power ... is an act of perilous presumption.
Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
I cant tell you the key to succsess, but the key to faliure is trying to please everyone.
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.
Success is a refined study of the obvious
It is almost possible to sum up the whole process of thinking as the occurrence of suggestions for the solution of difficulties and the testing out of those suggestions. The suggestions or suppositions are tested by observation,memory, experiment.
Myranda chooses to study under your tutelage,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.
Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.
bliss. Practicing
When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.