If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

We don’t have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt.

your only barriers are what you let it be

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

One concrete way in which we all landscape our sanity is by having our experience of reality confirmed by others. When our experience of reality is disconfirmed by others, our confidence in our own sanity...

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that

…wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

Let your fear drive you to evolve into greatness.

Trapped. Sinking. Can’t be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone’s fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift...

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.

Time spent worrying – about anything – provides no emotional or physical benefit to us; such things only weaken us for the fights we must endure in our lives.

Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.

Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you...

Moje myślenie wiecznie niegotowe na to, co ma mysleć, moje opowiadanie wiecznie niegotowe na to, co ma opowiadać, nie jestem gotowy na tę opowieść. Ten ciągły lęk przed rozstrzygnięciem, przed działaniem, przed życiem sprawia, że...