Quotes About Ambiguity

Lógicamente inconsistente. Obviamente incierto.

But if life has any definition at all, it is the things that happen to us while we are making plans.

Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way. In a word—messy.

you know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details?

social work wasn't about fixing. It was and is all about contextualizing and "leaning in." Social work is all about leaning into the discomfort of ambiguity and uncertainty, and holding open an empathic space so people can find their own way.

An intolerance for uncertainty is an important contributing factor to all types of anxiety.

More than one thing can be true at once.

Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

Zij ging vertrekken, maar zij wist nog niet waar zij uiteindelijk terecht zou komen. Zij moest iets volbrengen, maar zij had geen duidelijke voorstelling van wat dat was. Voorgevoel zei haar, dat een serene ouderdom voor haar niet was weggelegd.

We want ourselves to be seen and to have been seen as we are; and we want just as much to veil ourselves and remain unknown, for behind every determination of our being lies dormant the unspoken possibility of being different.

It is not for nothing that the person stands between heaven and hell. He has to live so as to do justice to both the spirit and the flesh and to honor the fragility of life where it reveals itself to him. This he should do as a pragmatist out of a respect for the deep ambiguity contained in all of existence, not as a petty profiteer: he will be part of one of the two halves of the world soon enough.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information.

La vida se compone de demasiados Quizás. Y de muy pocas cosas que se puedan saber con absoluta seguridad...

We go through life with one foot in a rose garden and the other in quick sand, he thought. - (Kurt)

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The world is divided into two sorts of people: those who think the world is divided into two sorts of people and those who don't.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

Nothing is my last word on anything.