Certain - Quotes
While we try not to think about it, nearly the only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we will one day die and leave everything behind; and yet, paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to believe that this is so.
At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what`s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That`s the world`s greatest lie.
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future. As if figuring it out will somehow cushion the blow.
But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes. But one thing is certain: When it finally reveals itself the future is never the way we imagined it.
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.
Once people are broken in certain ways, they can`t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it`s already happened.
People say they "find" love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.
So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
When you`ve reached a certain point of your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall, but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands... and fly.
Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.
I`m [...] certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but somehow it usually eludes them.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Christmas isn`t about presents or Santa Clause or cows, it`s about a feeling. It`s about people. It`s about us forgetting about our problems and reaching out to help other people. Christmas doesn`t have to happen in one certain place, it happens in our hearts.
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.