Quotes about Embracing Uncertainty
I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
— Stan Wawrinka
I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
— Carl Sagan
All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.
— Stephen Colbert
I never worry about tomorrow. For instance I know I am going to have to leave here very soon, and I haven't the faintest idea where I'll end up or how I shall earn my living, but I know that something will turn up. If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.
— Etty Hillesum
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
No wonder there is no wonder. We've figured it all out.
— Max Lucado
There is a time in every man's life when he must push off from the wharf of safety into the sea of chance.
— Maya Angelou
Sometimes things happen, and for a variety of reasons I may not end up where I wanted to go. If I change my mind or problems beyond my control interfere, I find myself doing something other than what I had planned. Timing and exact circumstances may vary. That's okay. I usually end up someplace that's better for me. That's where acceptance, trust, faith, and letting go come in. But at least I'm not driving aimlessly through life.
— Melody Beattie
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
— Steven Pressfield
Life isn't sure, life is scary, It doesn't mean you stop living it.
— Susan May Warren
Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.
— St. Augustine
Through doubt we arrive at the truth.
— Cicero