Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales… To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing.
Bertrand Russell (Thank you, dhammanovicehuman-voices, saber-y-conocer, & sharanam)

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell (via devilduck)