“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. An…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.comTagged: Love, Unresolved Problems, Answers, Finding Answers, Asking Questions
“The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Certainty, Answers
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Amb…”— Gilda Radner, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Life
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: maturity, Uncertainty
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Change, Power, Control, Self-Direction, Inspirational
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”— Tony Schwartz, amazon.comTagged: Certainty, Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Learning
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”— Edward Abbey, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Life, Challenge, Change, Uncertainty, Growth
“I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause. It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.”— Po Bronson, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Moving Forward
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”— Robin Williams, brainyquote.comTagged: Failure, Mistakes, Moving Forward, Overcoming Obstacles, Optimism
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: disaster, Change, Failure, Redemption
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we’re going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.comTagged: Impatience, Perserverance, Moving Forward, Pressing On, Courage
“The journey of life is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness.”— M. Scott Peck, amazon.comTagged: Life, Confusion, Uncertainty
“There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Change, Optimism, The future, Moving Forward, Embracing Change
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart. It’s mostly a question of editing. If you’d wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.comTagged: Life, Story, Confusion, Uncertainty, Change
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief
“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, tylerknott.comTagged: Struggle, Life
“Not everything needs to be fixed.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: Problems, Moving On, Fixing Problems
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”— Nick Hornby, amazon.comTagged: Life, Challenge, Struggle, Difficulty
“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”— Banana Yoshimoto, amazon.comTagged: Life, Uncertainty, Guilt
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: forgiveness, Moving On, Moving Forward
“There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.”— Jennifer E. Smith, amazon.comTagged: Starting Over, Moving On, New, Old, Beginnings
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.”— Mhairi McFarlane, amazon.comTagged: Life, Challenge, Change, Decisions, Self-Direction
“Write a list of things that are going to get better. Start with you.”— Unknown, metamorphosisofmeg.tumblr.comTagged: Improvement, Self-improvement, Change
“The silence between the notes makes the music. And lest we forget, the longer the silence, the more incredibly beautiful and powerful the music when it finally swells and the symphony goes on.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Life, Change