The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes

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Nobody is aware of what the future holds, to take advantage of uncertainty is to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

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The mountain between us is one i cannot climb.

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Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships.

The Stoic Emperor

Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human.

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