#certainty

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#affirmation #insecurity #self-esteem #status #uncertainty

Be true to your divided selves. They're the only ones who will support you in moments of vacillation. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #self #uncertainty #funny

the living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#living #religion #uncertainty #wonder #death

...surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #uncertainty #unrequited #love

You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#confidence #inspirational #self-esteem #success #winning

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #heroes #legends #risk

There is no certainty; there is only adventure. ↗

— Roberto Assagioli

#certainty #only

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#although #back #been #boring #certainty

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#between #confusion #constitutes #decay #error

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#country #cuts #data #does #dollars