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Voices for self-confidence

These voices are best suited to self-confidence — but every voice in FindOkay is still visible below.

Marcus Aurelius

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Marcus Aurelius.

Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Specializes in

  • stress
  • leadership
  • career
  • burnout
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Cognitive reframing
Epictetus

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Epictetus.

Epictetus

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence
  • career

Generated from

  • Stoicism
  • Acceptance
Boethius

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Boethius.

Boethius

"Nothing is miserable unless you think it so."

Specializes in

  • grief
  • stress
  • purpose
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Christian contemplative
  • Neoplatonism
Michel de Montaigne

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
Frederick Douglass

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
Sojourner Truth

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
Farid ud-Din Attar

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Farid ud-Din Attar.

Farid ud-Din Attar

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion; bewilderment is intuition."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Poetry as reflection
  • Contemplative practice
Augustine of Hippo

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Augustine of Hippo.

Augustine of Hippo

"Our heart is restless until it rests in you."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
  • Existential meaning
Baal Shem Tov

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Baal Shem Tov.

Baal Shem Tov

"From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls who are destined to be together find each other, their two streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • relationships
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Sufism
Bankei Yotaku

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
G.K. Chesterton

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with G.K. Chesterton.

G.K. Chesterton

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • self confidence
  • faith
  • relationships

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Existential meaning
  • Cognitive reframing
Dogen

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
Al-Ghazali

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Al-Ghazali.

Al-Ghazali

"Knowledge without action is a wilderness, and action without knowledge is folly."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • stress
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Christian mysticism
  • Contemplative practice
Hakuin Ekaku

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
Hildegard of Bingen

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Hildegard of Bingen.

Hildegard of Bingen

"The Earth is alive, and the soul is the sap that nourishes it. All creation is a living, breathing garment of God."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • self confidence
  • burnout

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Nature connection
  • Contemplative practice
Ibn Arabi

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Ibn Arabi.

Ibn Arabi

"Know that the Cosmos is a large Man, and Man is a small Cosmos."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • anxiety
  • loneliness
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Sufism
  • Christian mysticism
  • Kabbalah
Kateri Tekakwitha

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Kateri Tekakwitha.

Kateri Tekakwitha

"I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. He must be my only love."

Specializes in

  • faith
  • anxiety
  • grief
  • self confidence
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Christian mysticism
  • Indigenous wisdom
  • Compassion practice
Krishna

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Krishna.

Krishna

"Your right is only to perform your duty, and not to the fruit thereof. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • stress
  • relationships
  • career
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Bhakti
  • Yoga philosophy
  • Advaita Vedanta
Liezi

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
Isaac Luria

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Isaac Luria.

Isaac Luria

"From the very beginning, each soul is composed of 613 components, corresponding to the 613 commandments of the Torah."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • grief
  • faith
  • self confidence
  • burnout
  • loneliness

Generated from

  • Kabbalah
  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Christian mysticism
Maimonides

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Maimonides.

Maimonides

"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt advance."

Specializes in

  • purpose
  • faith
  • anxiety
  • career
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Logotherapy
Milarepa

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
Musonius Rufus

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
Nachman of Breslov

Built from the writings and philosophies associated with Nachman of Breslov.

Nachman of Breslov

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge; the important thing is not to be afraid at all."

Specializes in

  • anxiety
  • stress
  • grief
  • purpose
  • faith
  • self confidence

Generated from

  • Hasidic Judaism
  • Kabbalah
  • Existential meaning