Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
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 determinin...
(n.) The quality or state of being uncertain.
(n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of...
My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.
I told Ersken, Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off onErsken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you wer...
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 pers...
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe...
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provid...
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
The unknown...the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought...The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowi...
They were close enough that he could feel the hurried beat of her heart. He could feel Charlotte's indecision in every word she didn't say and every move she didn't make. She was tense with uncertaint...
I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.
And where are you going?I dunno, said the Spangled Boy. I'm running from, not to.Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.
And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
When in doubt, be ridiculous.
No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to...
In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe...