Be confident in your ability to love yourself and others; do not let fear win instead of cheer. There will be challenges; you can proceed through the good and the bad with a sensible surety of self. Know thyself, keep calm, and carry on with confidence. You are very loved. All emotions will come and go, but love is beautiful because it is a constant.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I dare you to be more confident. Believe in yourself. I am not alone. Plenty of us out here see and believe in your potential. It is now time for you to do the same. Turn the page, turn over a new leaf, and accept some new beliefs, ok? People like us can share and spread beneficial and healthy levels of self-confidence for us all. I dare you to love.
Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.
-Michelle Obama
Feel confident in your own being. Pave your lane with the best available materials possible. Prove your worth to your own self. Proceed in peace. Please plan personally, too. I went to the movies by myself this past weekend because there was a film out that I was curious to see. A couple months ago, I took a big trip abroad by myself. Both choices were outside my previous comfort zones, yet I stand by these decisions wholeheartedly.
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
-Brian Tracy
These moments can become intimidating if you stew on their what-ifs for too long. However, if you instead branch out beyond your comfort zone, you can grow your confidence greater and learn how to be even more comfortable in additional places and situations. Eventually, you can carry a nearly-constant confidence with you, but please also remember to balance it out with a healthy dose of humility. Use it to help, not hurt.
The root of true confidence grows from our ability to be in unconditional friendship with ourselves.
-Pema Chödrön
Various solo trips give me plenty of time to spend many moments in contemplative self-reflection. I can be deeply introspective while quietly observing and soaking in the world around me. The levels of comfort and confidence that I now have in and with myself have risen and expanded to amounts that I honestly did not think were possible for me before. Much of my negative self-talk is gone or is in the process of disappearing, my extreme spikes in emotions are subduing, and I am learning to be a great friend to myself now.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-Bertrand Russell
Once you have steeled yourself with solid confidence, you can move from a fragile home on sand to a stronghold amidst majestic mountains. You can choose to finally move on from walking on broken glass. Let your heels heal. Forge a confident path forward in your lane. Define the details of your divineness. What is your worth? Only you should say.
Whatever confronts you, don’t believe it. When something appears, shine your light on it. Have confidence in the light that is always working inside you.
-Linji Yixuan
Honestly, I could not always be proud of how I have gone through life in the past. Now, though, I can proudly, humbly, and confidently say that I lived. I am living my best life, and I am further improving it when and where I can. Can you say the same? I hope so <3
Maybe it is wise. Maybe it is dumb. Time will tell.