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Quotes About Uncertainty

By making the decision to accept the possibility of a negative outcome, you circumvent the requirement for absolute certainty of your future comfort and safety.
~ R. Reid Wilson
I'll become stronger by purposely facing what I am afraid of. It's OK that I'm anxious right now. I can handle these sensations. I can handle this uncertainty. I want this anxiety. I want this uncertainty. Love the mat. Run toward the roar.
~ R. Reid Wilson
You purposely choose to feel uncomfortable and uncertain within your threatening situations: "I want this." • You choose to linger with your anxiety and uncertainty instead of escaping. • You notice your negative and fearful thoughts without getting caught up in them. You accept them without getting rid of them.
~ R. Reid Wilson
We are always afraid of the unknown.
~ R.A. Dick
When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
~ R.L. LaFevers
It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
~ R.L. LaFevers
People must save for crisis. But he should never think that he will be able to avert the crisis by his
~ R.P. Jain
Mi decisión es una máscara y, tras ella, reina el desorden, el apeiron .
~ Raúl Ruiz
I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.
~ Rabelais
Fate's schedule is not always naked and clear.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I've read Waiting for Godot three times and I still can't tell you what it is about. If, as some critics claim, it is about being bored while waiting for God to return, then it's even duller than I thought.
~ Rabih Alameddine
What breaks us is rarely what we expect.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Every Beiruti of a certain age has learned that on leaving for a walk you should never be too sure of returning home, not only because something might happen to you personally, but also because your home might cease to exist.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Travolti dal torrente dell'incertezza, i nostri sogni hanno teso le braccia Per afferrare la terra. In mattoni e pietra si irrigidiscono i loro sogni e così sono state costruite le città dell'uomo.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
~ Rachel Cohn
Answer all the questions that I'm too afraid to ask
~ Rachel Cohn
The day lies ahead empty of landmarks, like a prairie, like an untraversable plain.
~ Rachel Cusk
he observed that in the current situation the possibility of destruction seemed genuinely to be upon us, to the extent that he couldn't see what move on the chess board would get us out of this corner.
~ Rachel Cusk
while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had.
~ Rachel Cusk
I didn't go mad,' I said. 'Though I suppose I still might, one day.
~ Rachel Cusk
Tudo que sabe é que não se reconhece mais nesses contos, embora recorde a sensação explosiva de escrevê-los, algo dentro dele se adensando e fazendo uma força irresistível para nascer. Nunca mais teve essa sensação; chega a pensar que, para continuar escritor, teria de se tornar escritor novamente, quando poderia com a mesma facilidade se tornar astronauta ou fazendeiro.
~ Rachel Cusk