Quotes about Uncertainty

All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable, though.

I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.

Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

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.