Number one in your life’s blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel like you are a nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance …*
Martin Luther King
Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which all self-respect springs.**
Joan Didion
Through ancient ways
and means, and
with impartiality,
The universe has declared
you to be somebody (Ta dah!)–
Now to embrace this,
To be specific
and unrepeatable,
To declare your talents and
energies and values,
To begin what will prove to be
your unfolding adventure:
You start with your 1, and then you suspend judgement on what you’re doing, because you don’t know what you have when you start. No one does.^
*Quoted in Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy;
**Quoted in Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic;
^Rob Bell’s How To Be Here.
THIN|SILENCE 