Quotes About Certainty

it wasn't good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed. For

I love you... When I asked What is this? I already knew. I knew what I felt, what I was certain you felt too, but I was afraid to say it, because it was all new to me. It seemed too soon, too impossible. But everything about us didn't just feel right, it felt like something rare, something delicate that I was afraid of breaking. Something that only comes along once in a lifetime.

It must be true then," I said. He smiled:"Must be, I'll show you one day".

I don't care about how you do it. Fall on him. That should do it. Do I have your word?

Ik heb mijn besluit genomen. - Arianna

In a loved one's beauty, there is solace, comfort in its presence, and the hope - no, the belief - the certainty that possession of so fine an ornament might be sustenance enough.

There is truth and truth,' said the priest of Delos. 'It is true after its kind.

It was his nature to believe anything, before he would believe he could be wrong.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right.

Faith is a choice

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

las herejías —de cualquier clase, no sólo religiosas—son tan ciertas como las ortodoxias y que, además, nunca intentaron imponerse por la fuerza o vencer por el miedo.

Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

Speakership is the great certainty filter. Anything you're unsure about will be exposed and interrogated when you say it in public.

No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.

Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life's beautiful uncertainty.

I may have not been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Maybe happiness is about what we can give. Maybe happiness is not a butterfly we can catch with a net. Maybe there is no certain way to be happy. Maybe there are only maybes. If (as Emily Dickinson said) "Forever—is composed of Nows—," maybe the nows are made of maybes. Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life's beautiful uncertainty

After reading the news, I go on Twitter. I don't have an account but I find it interesting - all the different voices, the squabbles, the arrogance of certainty, the ignorance, the occasional, but wonderful, compassion, and watching the evolution of language head towards a new kind of hieroglyphics.

I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

When you have worries about things you don't know about, like the future, it's a very good idea to remind yourself of things you do know.

Maybe happiness is not about what we can get. Maybe happiness is about what we already have. Maybe happiness is about what we can give. Maybe happiness is not a butterfly we can catch with a net. Maybe there is no certain way to be happy. Maybe there are only maybes. If (as Emily Dickinson said) "Forever—is composed of Nows—," maybe the nows are made of maybes. Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life's beautiful uncertainty.