Quotes About Uncertainty

Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

The young woman was a window waiting to be climbed through. A window that she guessed was a little broken anyway.

I had lost my job. I was no longer officially a minor historian. Perhaps I was history itself, flailing around in a number of directions, sometimes all of them at the same time.

I wanted my whole life so far to slip away with the rolling waves, to begin a different kind of life. But I didn't know what that meant or how to get to it

I knew I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, but I was overwhelmed by everything and didn't know where to start.

All life is a risk—I'm a physician, I'm only too well aware of that. But some people sail closer to the wind and they are the ones after my own heart. I admire them for that, you see, because I have been incapable of doing it myself.

My point, Clara Gill, is that it's wise to choose your allegiance in this world, take a side or a story or a creed, but you might be wrong. You might be dazzled."~Will Cross

Hunt while you can. The weather may change tomorrow.

We don't want to depend on things that might let us down.

That's all I'm doing, choosing to trust Jesus even if I don't understand what or why something is happening. Jesus wants you to choose to trust Him again. He won't take that trust you place in Him lightly.

Certainty is the place where questions go to die.

Mix a quart of uncertainty, a quart of complexity, a quart of mystery, and a quart of adventure and you have a gallon of life.

Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.

Dunia tidak lagi sama. Hidup ini menjadi asing. Aku sedih untuk sesuatu yang tak kutahu. Aku galau untuk sesuatu yang tak ada. Dan jari ini ingin menunjuk sesuatu yang bisa menjadi sebab, tapi tak kutemukan apa-apa. Pada saat yang sama, seluruh sel tubuhku berkata lain. Mereka tahu sesuatu yang tak dapat digapai pikiran. Apa rasanya, jika tubuhmu sendiri menyimpan rahasia darimu?

Tidak ada awal dan akhir. Tidak ada sebab dan akibat. Tidak ada ruang dan waktu. Yang ada hanyalah Ada. Terus bergerak, berekspansi, berevolusi. Sia-sialah orang yang berusaha menjadi batu di arus ini, yang menginginkan kepastian ataupun ramalan masa depan karena sesungguhnya justru dalam ketidakpastian manusia dapat berjaya, menggunakan potensinya untuk berkreasi.

Problemku terbesar adalah memercayai spesies Homo sapiens. Termasuk diriku sendiri. Padahal, manusia terlahir ke dunia dibungkus rasa percaya. Tak ada yang lebih tahu kita ketimbang plasenta. Tak ada rumah yang lebih aman daripada rahim ibu. Namun, di detik pertama kita meluncur keluar, perjudian dimulai.

Hidup memang aneh. Banyak penjelasan dalam ketidakjelasannya.

Menjadi kuat bukan berarti kamu tahu segalanya. Bukan berarti kamu tidak bisa hancur. Kekuatanmu ada pada kemampuanmu bangkit lagi ketika berkali-kali jatuh. Jangan pikirkan kamu akan sampai dimana dan kapan. Tidak ada yang tahu.

Sometimes fear cannot be distinguised from excitement.

Uncertainty is fearful to the ego, which always wants to control reality, but from the viewpoint of detachment, a constantly shifting and changing universe must remain uncertain. If things were certain, there could be no creativity. Therefore spirit works through surprises and unexpected outcomes. We achieve peace of mind only when we accept the wisdom of uncertainty.

We cannot even imagine the complex forces behind every event that occurs in our lives. You never know how and when any life experience will reappear. You never know when a coincidence will lead to the opportunity of a lifetime.

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the uncertainty of events creates fear and doubt.

Why? Because you're never afraid? You should be. Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer, and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.