
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
Return Trip to Nirvana from Sunday Telegraph (1967).
Context: I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
Source: St Andrew's Day (November 30, 2007)
“My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant.”
"History of India" at Amazing World http://www.amworld.info/india-travel/history-of-india
Book I, Ch. 14
Attributed
Variant: Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.