“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

“When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension”

Henry Rollins book Black Coffee Blues

“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“For what else are you busied with except improving yourself every day, laying aside some error, and coming to understand that the faults which you attribute to circumstances are in yourself?”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

“153. When you give yourself to prayer, rise above every other joy — then you will find true prayer.”

Evagrius Ponticus (345–399) Christian monk

“Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.”

John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer

“You just need to put yourself out there the worst case is you will get rejected but you will get a lot more opportunities that you would if you just never really put yourself out and it may not be an easy thing to do to step outside your comfort zone and really put yourself out there.”

Ire Aderinokun (1991) Nigerian front end developer

“… every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.”

Terri Blackstock (1957) American writer