#certain

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#past #uncertainty #uncertainty

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#marketing

The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others' appraisals to play a determining role in how we see ourselves. Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#others #self-doubt #uncertainty #value #self-determination

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fight #identification #self-realization #uncertainly #self-realization

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school. ↗

— Martha Beck

#certain #certain things #get #others #parents

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#artist #biggest #biggest obstacle #certainly #chance

Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#doing #everything #make #matter #possible

He had the feeling that he must make a decision, and though he was used to making many decisions every day, this time he was beset with uncertainty; in fact he had no idea what was being asked of him ↗

— Amos Oz

#uncertainty #life

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments since seemed to obey, and promised to continue obeying, their own set of stochastic, undisclosed, and undiscoverable laws. Where I was fully aware of the pitfalls and folly of a finely-tuned narcissism but still the known universe seemed to bend and bend inexorably inward and towards me where it awaited my next move, supremely ready to react accordingly. And how I knew that decisions I would soon make or defer would have near-Sophoclean import and yet nonetheless it all seemed oddly irrelevant. ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#future #life #past #retrospective #uncertainly

On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me. ↗

— Dante Hall

#advantage #certain #feel #front #guy