Quotes About Uncertainty

The choice isn't between success and failure; it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

Oh, I'm really sorry, I'm a personal friend of a friend of his. I just moved into the city, and Jane suggested that I should meet Michael, and honestly, I don't even know why besides the fact that Jane is a good friend of Michael's. Maybe you're right. Maybe it's all wrong. Maybe Michael doesn't know Jane well and he wouldn't want to meet me. I apologize if this is the case.

The future is dynamic and not fully in your control. Celebrate that fact instead of fighting it, and life gets a lot more interesting.

I am filled with a certain kind of doubt about my role in the world. But that does not stop me from participating in the world. It only keeps me from expecting something from the world. It

I wish I was not so determined to feel secure about everything. I want everything to be comfortable and in reality nothing ever is.

The very night that the trajectory of my life had been set — I was an executioner's son, and so would be an executioner — was also the night my world became unmoored.

The greatest fallacy: looking continually for an answer in things that are unanswerable.

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Interesting that the book used the word define. That's just what I've been thinking about. This business of defining who you are and what you are and where you are headed- it's all harder than I thought it would be. I thought that this stuff just... happened, I thought that life just happened, and I guess I thought I'd drift right along, like a leaf on a river, flowing with the current to wherever the river wanted to go.

Life should come with such a statement. No Promises. Just lots of hope.

It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

In fact, we often prefer predictable, obvious suffering to suffering that may or may not happen at any given time. And

that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When

The unnerving possibility of one's own madness is preferable to the still more unnerving one of supernatural agency disrupting known, familiar realities.

If one day I was taken away...would you wait for me to come back?" Concerned moved across his face. "Where are you going?" "Just tell me, please. I need to know, without telling you anything else." "No." I swallowed and blinked back tears. "I'd go after you," he said.

We are dreamers, shouting out in our sleep, pilgrims lost in a forest of symbols where no man can say with certainty who he is.

Nerves is just a case of which end of a six-gun you happen to be lookin' at.

You never know your luck till the wheel stops.

Suspicion aint' proof.

We all seek stability," he quoted Langer as saying. "We want to hold things still, thinking that if we do, we can control them. But since everything is always changing, that doesn't work. Actually, it causes you to lose control." Yet if you understand reading as a mindful person, "uncertainty creates freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks)

Life needs a touch of mystery and not everything requires an answer