Quotes about Uncertainty

Tension is living in the gap between certainty and uncertainty. We always begin with what we know, and are irresistibly drawn to what we don't know. We are inveterately curious. We are wired to grow, and all growth stretches us beyond our comfort level. Comfort is the absence of tension; growth requires a swim in murky, dangerous waters... Tension is the medium which we breathe everyday.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds.

4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Faith puts you out on a wide river in a little boat, in the fog, in the dark.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

And I sat there trying to think, and failing, thinking only that whatever I would say was probably going to be a surprise to me.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.