“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Mephistopheles and the Student
Faust, Part 1 (1808)
“Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.”
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.”
Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
Persius (34–62) ancient latin poet
Satire IV, line 52.
The Satires
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
Benjamin Spock (1903–1998) American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Verily, trust Google. The truth is out there; we just need to know how to Google it!”
Newton Lee American computer scientist
Google It: Total Information Awareness, 2016
“If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Trust Yourself
Martin de Maat (1949–2001) American theatre director
A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)
Context: The beginning of this work is just how to get people to remember how to play, to be in play. Once you're in play, you're in the moment. You're not judgmental, you're enjoying each other, you're accepting of everything that goes on; you're trusting yourself and just doing the game as best as you can. Your critical mind is gone, your analytical mind is not involved. Really, it's just the flow that goes on between human beings, the group the power of the ensemble.
As with any ensemble, it is the team effort or the group effort that makes the individual grow or look good. That's what the center of this work is all about, what these games and exercises are all about... breaking down barriers between people, empowering the individual to believe in their own associations and ideas, uncovering the courage to create, the courage to communicate.
“Do not judge yourself, but live with someone who knows how to behave himself properly.”
Poemen (340–450) Egyptian monk and desert father
Saying 73
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
16 March 1759
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)