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Quotes About Uncertainty

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on
~ Paulo Coelho
She wasn't afraid of difficulties what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was thinking that, in future, she might regret the choices she made now. "I am afraid of committing myself" she thought to herself she wanted to follow all possible paths and ended up following none.
~ Paulo Coelho
The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched, but I can't move. I don't want to leave, because I don't know where to go
~ Paulo Coelho
We are afraid to change because we think that, after so much effort and sacrifice, we know our present world. And even though that world might not be the best of all worlds, and even though we may not be entirely satisfied with it, at least it won't give us any nasty surprises. We won't go wrong. When necessary, we will make a few minor adjustments so that everything continues the same.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you make a decision, you are really diving in a strong current that will bring you to places you never dreamed of when you first made that decision
~ Paulo Coelho
Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision
~ Paulo Coelho
Evidently this safety is completely false; no one can control anything, and a change always appears at the moment one least expects it, taking us surprise and with no chance to react or fight.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don't know what to do with it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have much more interesting life.
~ Paulo Coelho
ada saat-saat dalam hidup di mana kau harus mengambil resiko, untuk melakukan hal-hal yang gila
~ Paulo Coelho
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Gods throw the dice,and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.They don't care if when you go,you leave behind a lover,a home, a career or a dream.The Gods don't care whether you have it all,whether your every desire can be met through hardwork and persistence.The Gods don't want to know about your plans and hopes.Somewhere they're throwing the dice and you get chosen.From then on,winning and losing is only a question of luck.
~ Paulo Coelho
It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.
~ Paulo Coelho
Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?
~ Paulo Coelho
sometimes we win and sometimes we lose , don't expect anything to get back
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.
~ Paulo Coelho
love doesn't ask many questions, because once we start thinking, we start to feel afraid. It's an inexplicable fear and there's no point putting it into words. Risks are there to be taken.
~ Paulo Coelho
We assume (falsely) that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future.
~ Paulo Coelho
This morning, my son asked me for money to buy a sheep. Should I help him, do you think?" "Since it clearly isn't a matter of urgency, wait another week before giving him your answer." "But I have the means to help him now. What difference will a week make?" "A very great difference indeed. Experience has taught me that people only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been un-certain as to whether or not they'll get it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~ Paulo Coelho
Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it
~ Paulo Coelho