Uncertainty
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- What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
- To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
- Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
- Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody, but unbowed.
- There’s an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it’s a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it’s a source of comfort in a world that’s so rapidly changing.
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?