Inner Certainty Quotes

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

I know who I am and what I can do.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

I know who I am.

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.

I could not be so sure of Spring / Save that it sings in me.

When you have constant communion with God, a constant receiving from within, there is never any doubt; you know your way. You become an instrument through which the job is done, therefore you have no feeling of self-achievement

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

I never doubted myself. It just didn't work.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

I am the only real truth I know.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

When you know and feel the miracle that you are, you become certain that nothing is impossible for you.