#assurance

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#because #deep #deep down #divorced #down

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#fascinated #figure #frightening #i #i am

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#beings #eyes #live #our #reflection

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#direction #knowledge #self-assurance #self-knowledge

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#philosophy #self-assurance #parenting

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#fallen #his #i #interest #long