#assurance

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. ↗

— Bryce Courtenay

#self-determination #life

And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly. ↗

— David Neeleman

#customers #feel #fly #need #really

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

Now, this is what the Lord says, "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. ↗

— Anonymous

#courage #god-s-protection #courage

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#sex-appeal #women #women

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#countenance #difficulty #gives #make #out

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#forbearance #forever #quietness #root

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#confidence #self-assurance #self-esteem #self-worth #style

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. ↗

— Robert Collier

#confidence #enforcing #faith #knowing #truth