21 Quotes by Kain Ramsay

Thoughts are the mother of insecurities. Insecurity is nothing more than a thought, a belief, an ethereal object which cannot be dyed, slimmed, promoted, demoted, salaried, painted, broken up with or bought. The worse you think about yourself, the worse you’re going to feel in life.

Nobody else can make you feel a certain way, they can’t force-feed you an emotion to feel. They can do things and say things to you, but how you feel in response isn’t their fault and isn’t down to their control: your emotions are entirely under your influence due to the thoughts you do and do not validate.

Beliefs act like a set of rules we’re too frightened to break; rather than risk getting what we want in life, we’d rather sit put in our comfort zones.

Knocking people down a few pegs, verbally or in the silent comfort of your own mind, is an easy but artificial and corrupt method for building yourself up. Everyone with an inferiority complex has a shadow of a superiority complex buried inside them somewhere

The reason so many people are unfulfilled and miserable in life is that they take the well-trodden road of shallow materialism, one-upmanship and empty goals for self-aggrandisement. They spend their time investing in self-serving ambitions with the intention of either bettering themselves or impressing other people.

You are too great an entity to keep yourself all to yourself: purposefulness in life comes through sharing what you have to offer with others

When our goals in life strive to positively influence and impact the lives of others, our confidence shifts. Whilst we may feel the pressure to ensure we fulfill our goals for the good of other people, our motivation becomes more powerful; we become more willing to take risks, lose face, fail and make sacrifices for the good of the bigger picture.

Whilst people may say or do things which hurt you and feed into your negative beliefs, no one can make you think in a particular way about yourself: how you respond mentally and emotionally is down to you.

You are not the sum of the mistakes you’ve made in life: you’re not a failed employee, parent, spouse, child or student; you’re not the embarrassing or stupid things you’ve said in moments of naivety or anger. The outcomes you get in life don’t define you and shouldn’t be part of your identity. Your value lies in your ups and your downs and the lessons you’ve learned from them all - failures and successes.