Quotes About Uncertainty

Could my uncle have finally become unhinged?

Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.

He'd never called her. Wanted to. A hundred times. But every time he thought about it, his mind boiled up with every reason not to do it, every doubt he'd ever had about himself.

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

We have a choice when we face difficult decisions: We can act with faith or we can act with fear. There are no guarantees except this one: If we dwell on our fears, we will definitely miss the joys of the unexpected.

Worry is a form of atheism. And so is most fear.

Los mejores momentos de la vida son aquellos en los cuales no sabemos qué hacer, porque solamente entonces, mi niño, descubrimos nuestra fuerza interior, nuestra verdadera vocación.

We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.

There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.

Ci dicono che se adesso ci impegniamo, il nostro futuro sarà felice... ma non esiste una garanzia del genere. Quindi vivi come più ti piace, senza pretendere di essere ciò che non puoi

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

thing with God sometimes. We know He has promised to be there. But things happen

You have to put yourself in the situation that you might fail.

humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Often it's easier to make a decision when you don't know as much, because then you can't overthink. If you know too much, it can freeze you. The whole deal looks like a minefield.

Here is a terrifying system-wide purview: crime, disease, environment, and politics all obey a heinous logic of unknowable dormancy, so that we know them only when they explode, when they present the bill, when the damage is done. It is the damage that constitutes our knowing.

I do not mean to imply that outside circumstances or other people do not play a role in our lives. Certainly, many factors influence the conditions we experience. But if we focus our attention solely upon those factors, we feed a spirit of fear and uncertainty regarding our future.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

I am not for buying into financial services firms because I am not sure of the quality.