"We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost."

Doubt, Uncertainty, Loss, Confidence

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"We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

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"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."

Equality

"I always thought of men as being hard-maybe because I was hard. But there was a softness in Tom that betrayed his large masculine hands and his deep baritone voice. He knew something about love that I didn't. I don't know where he'd learned it, but it wasn't something you got from a book, not something you could learn in an online class, not something you could borrow. Maybe it was something you were born with. Some people knew how to love and some people didn't. Tom was the former. I was the latter. I didn't know which one of us had it worse."

Sensitivity

"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."

Talent

"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."

Nostalgia

"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."

Pain

"Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing."

Grief

"Do you think it will always be this way?'What?'I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. 'I don't know, I said. 'Tomorrow."

Youth

"And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?"

Faith

"You can't expect to go both ways when you're driving on a one-way street."

Direction

"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."

Longing