#certainty

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. ↗

— Tony Schwartz

#certainty #curiosity #growing #learning #letting-go

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#drama #ethan #uncertainty #drama

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

— Mohsin Hamid

#past #uncertainty #uncertainty

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 road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen. ↗

— John Speed

#india

When someone says, “One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. 
Check their pulse to be certain. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#certainty #conversation #death #murder #pulse

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence. ↗

— James Joyce

#desire #love #soul #uncertainty #beauty

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about. ↗

— Cameron Mackintosh

#absolute #absolutely #audiences #buried #certainty

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#absolutely #behind #certainty #had #i

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#certainty #matters #nothing #only #these