“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli
“Confidence isn’t built with rolemodels. Confidence is created by continually overcoming difficult situations.”
– Unknown
“You develop confidence after the successful repetition of any endeavor.”
– Debbie Millman
“Everything that’s fun in life is either immoral, illegal, or will make you fat.”
– P.G. Wodehouse
“Be true to yourself. But that’s something everyone says and no one means. No one wants you to be yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.”
– Marie Lu
“Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.”
– Esther Perel
“Forgiveness doesn’t sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”
– Cheryl Strayed
“The key to finding happiness in this life is realising that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.”
― Brianna Wiest
“Damage is indicative of vulnerability, which I think always feels a little dangerous. It is evidence that a person can feel deeply, that they can be open…then that delicious wall goes up and we just want to scramble over it and save (and feel) the person. It’s irresistible. I also think damage is a glimpse of something honest, and that’s always attractive.”
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge
“Perfectionism is the belief that something is broken — you. So you dress up your brokenness with degrees, achievements, accolades, pieces of paper, none of which can fix what you think you are fixing.”
– Edith Eva
“In most of our decisions, we are not betting against another person. Rather, we are betting against all the future versions of ourselves that we are not choosing.”
– Annie Duke
“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”
– Isabel Allende
“Friendship depends on trust, not money, not power, not mere education or knowledge. Only if there is trust will there be friendship.
Trust is related to whether we have a sincere motivation. If we are sincere in taking care of others, if we protect their lives and respect their rights, we’ll be able to conduct our lives transparently and that is the basis, isn’t it, of trust, which in turn is the basis of friendship.”
– Dalai Lama
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
― Helena Bonham Carter
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca