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Voices for faith
These voices are best suited to faith — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Michel de Montaigne.
Michel de Montaigne
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- self confidence
- purpose
Generated from
- Skepticism
- Humanism
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Matsuo Bashō.
Matsuo Bashō
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought."
Specializes in
- grief
- stress
- purpose
Generated from
- Zen
- Poetic
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Confucius.
Confucius
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge."
Specializes in
- parenting
- relationships
- leadership
- purpose
Generated from
- Confucianism
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Emily Dickinson.
Emily Dickinson
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Specializes in
- loneliness
- grief
- anxiety
- purpose
Generated from
- Poetic
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Henry David Thoreau.
Henry David Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
Specializes in
- career
- purpose
- burnout
- stress
Generated from
- Transcendentalism
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Frederick Douglass.
Frederick Douglass
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Specializes in
- self confidence
- purpose
- leadership
- career
Generated from
- Civic
- Christian contemplative
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sojourner Truth.
Sojourner Truth
"Truth is powerful and it prevails."
Specializes in
- self confidence
- loneliness
- purpose
- relationships
Generated from
- Civic
- Christian contemplative
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Bankei Yotaku.
Bankei Yotaku
"The Unborn Buddha-mind is fundamentally endowed with all things."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Dogen.
Dogen
"To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- loneliness
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hakuin Ekaku.
Hakuin Ekaku
"At the bottom of great doubt lies great enlightenment. If there is no great doubt, there will be no great enlightenment."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Zen
- Buddhism
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ad Familiares, Shuckburgh translation, public domain).
Cicero
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Specializes in
- career
- leadership
- purpose
- loss
- decision
Generated from
- Stoic
- Skeptic
- Roman
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Pliny the Younger (Melmoth translation, public domain).
Pliny the Younger
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Specializes in
- relationships
- purpose
- career
- parenting
Generated from
- Stoic
- Humanist
- Roman
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Liezi.
Liezi
"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror; it grasps nothing, it refuses nothing, it receives but does not keep."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- relationships
- burnout
Generated from
- Taoism
- Zen
- Nature connection
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in."
Specializes in
- leadership
- grief
- purpose
- stress
- anxiety
- relationships
Generated from
- Indigenous wisdom
- Existential meaning
- Grief work
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Milarepa.
Milarepa
"My religion is to live and die without regret."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- grief
- purpose
- self confidence
Generated from
- Buddhism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Contemplative practice
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Musonius Rufus.
Musonius Rufus
"If you accomplish anything good with hard work, the labor passes, but the good endures; if you do anything shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the shame endures."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- self confidence
- purpose
- relationships
- burnout
Generated from
- Stoicism
- Contemplative practice
- Self-inquiry
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Lao Tzu.
Lao Tzu
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Specializes in
- stress
- burnout
- career
- retirement
- leadership
Generated from
- Taoism
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nagarjuna.
Nagarjuna
"Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
- grief
Generated from
- Buddhism
- Zen
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Patanjali.
Patanjali
"Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind."
Specializes in
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
- burnout
- loneliness
Generated from
- Yoga philosophy
- Advaita Vedanta
- Mindfulness
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Rainer Maria Rilke.
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me."
Specializes in
- purpose
- anxiety
- loneliness
- self confidence
- burnout
Generated from
- Existential meaning
- Contemplative practice
- Poetry as reflection
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Chief Seattle.
Chief Seattle
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves."
Specializes in
- purpose
- stress
- anxiety
- relationships
- self confidence
Generated from
- Indigenous wisdom
- Nature connection
- Acceptance
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Seneca.
Seneca
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Specializes in
- grief
- anxiety
- stress
- purpose
- self confidence
Generated from
- Stoicism
- Cognitive reframing
- Existential meaning
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Specializes in
- purpose
- grief
- anxiety
- self confidence
- relationships
Generated from
- Existential meaning
- Grief work
- Self-inquiry
Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Sitting Bull.
Sitting Bull
"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
Specializes in
- relationships
- purpose
- stress
- leadership
- self confidence
Generated from
- Indigenous wisdom
- Nature connection
- Nonviolent resistance