{"quotes":[{"text":"As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for “instructions.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["faith-in-yourself","faith","instinct","self-trust","trust-your-gut","willingness-to-believe"],"id":2860,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.","author":"Nathaniel Branden","tags":["confidence","intelligence","mind","quick-witted","self-trust"],"id":9519,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Branden"},{"text":"What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["choose-your-own-path","choose-yourself","comfort-zone","give-yourself-permission","go-for-it","just-do-it","motivational-inspirational","motivational","permission","permission-to-win","risk-it","risk-taking","self-transcendence","self-transformation","self-trust","trust","trust-yourself","try-something-new"],"id":16147,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"A leaf does not resist the breeze. A goose does not resist the urge to fly down south. Is this not happiness? Is this not freedom? To access this incredible state, we need only one thing: Trust. Trust that, when you are not holding yourself together so tightly, you will not fall apart. Trust that it is more important to fulfill your authentic desires than listen to your fears. Trust that your intuition is leading you somewhere. Trust that the flow of life contains you, is bigger than you, and will take care of you - if you let it.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["authentic-desire","fear","let-go","letting-go","resistance","self-trust","trust","trust-yourself","trusting"],"id":24113,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"There's that 'margin of error' that you allow to exist in your mind, you want to give everything the benefit of the doubt, you want to look at another person and say 'maybe we could be friends' and that's all well at first, but then you have to reach that point in your life, wherein you don't have time to live on the margins of error, and you have to say, 'so what if there is a margin of error that exists? I don't think that this person and I could walk down the same path together, because she's like that, and I'm like this; I must relieve myself of fearing the error, the 'what could have been'.' You know, sometimes we can be so afraid of the 'what could have been' that we overlook the right here and now! And end up forsaking who we are and what makes us happy, and what we want and don't want! There is an error that takes place; when living too much for the 'what could have been.' There comes a time when you must give YOURSELF the benefit of the doubt! Know thyself. Color-in those margins of error with your favorite color; make them your own, make them work for you, let them be in your favor!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["color-your-margins-of-error","discerning-friendship","favor-thyself","favor-yourself","friendship","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational-trust","live-in-the-here-and-now","margins-of-error","realize-others","realize-yourself","see-others","see-reality","see-yourself","self-trust","to-discern-others","to-discern-thyself","to-forsake-the-margin-of-error","to-know-others","to-know-thyself","trust-yourself","what-could-have-been","what-could-have-beens","wisdom"],"id":29188,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.","author":"Agnes Chew","tags":["anchoring","attachment","beauty","belonging","booksactually","consciousness","country","desire","empowerment","expression","farewell","home","homelessness","inclinations","independence","individuality","inspirational","ireadbooksactually","love","melodies","memories","music","nameless","nationality","past-lives","present","prose","reality","roots","self-assurance","self-awareness","self-containment","self-determination","self-esteem","self-reliance","self-respect","self-sufficiency","self-trust","sglitftw","singapore-literature","singlit","space","stranger","travel","wanderlust","world"],"id":49841,"author_id":"Agnes+Chew"},{"text":"Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["believe-in-yourself","courage","discourage","discouragements","do-it","dunamis","fail","failure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","low-self-esteem","passion","positive-thinking","self-believe","self-esteem","self-trust","tell","thoughts","you-can","you-can-do-it"],"id":51190,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["art-lover","art-lovers","arte","artist","artists-life","artists","primitive","primitive-human-behavior","self","self-awareness-honesty-self","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-love-empowerment","self-reflection","self-respect","self-trust","spiritual-development","talent-and-courage","talented-women"],"id":74580,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"Trust yourself and try not to get lured off course by conflicting opinions that don't seem to sit right with you.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["decision-making","decisions","self-transformation","self-trust","success"],"id":77625,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life.', email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009).","author":"T.C. Boyle","tags":["belief","creative-process","self-confidence","self-trust","writing"],"id":110215,"author_id":"T.C.+Boyle"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}