Quotes About Self-distrust

To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.