Paul F. Tompkins Quotes

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

The only thing that I can personally turn to is compassion, gentleness, a willingness to allow myself to be angry instead of like why am I so angry. It's so embarrassing. I've got to let this go. I'm not going to be a good person if I walk around angry like this.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people keep paying me to say this - if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it. Thank you, give me my $150.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.