David Whyte Quote

It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.

Is your life story the truth? Yes, the chronological events are true. Is it the whole truth? No, you see and judge it through your conditioned eyes and mind - not of all involved - nor do you see the...

Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God is...

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

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.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation p

Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew.

She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married...

Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.

I’m not this unusual, she said. It’s just my hair.She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at on...