Aaron Anderson

26 Insightful Quotes You Need To Read When Your Life Is Drowning In Uncertainty

Because confusion has a way of getting the best of us. 
Heidi Priebe
June 30, 2016
“What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong.”
— Robin Williams, No Title
Tagged: Failure, Mistakes, Moving Forward, Overcoming Obstacles, Optimism
“There are far, far better things out there than any we leave behind.”
— C.S. Lewis, Letters To An American Lady
Tagged: Change, Optimism, The future, Moving Forward, Embracing Change, Hope
“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, The Zahir
Tagged: Lessons, Learning, Life, Progression, Moving Forward, Uncertainty
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain
Tagged: Sadness, Desire, Moving On, Moving Forward, Grief, Loss
“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 waters get thick, that’s our sign to keep going.”
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
Tagged: Impatience, Perserverance, Moving Forward, Pressing On, Courage, Resilience, Not Giving Up
“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, The Geography of You and Me
Tagged: Starting Over, Moving On, New, Old, Beginnings, Endings
“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Moving On, strength, Starting Over, Trauma, Grief
“Not everything needs to be fixed.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Problems, Moving On, Fixing Problems
“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. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet
Tagged: Love, Unresolved Problems, Answers, Finding Answers, Asking Questions
“The mistake is thinking that there can be an antidote to the uncertainty.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
Tagged: Uncertainty, Certainty, Answers
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Tagged: disaster, Change, Failure, Redemption
“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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: forgiveness, Moving On, Moving Forward
“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, Life, The Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Change, Power, Control, Self-Direction, Inspirational
“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 Ambiguity.”
— Gilda Radner, It's Always Something
Tagged: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Life
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.”
— Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
Tagged: maturity, Uncertainty
“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, Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys To Transforming the Way We Work and Live by Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy (2011) Paperback
Tagged: Certainty, Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Learning, Growth
“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, The Lake
Tagged: Life, Uncertainty, Guilt
“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
— Edward Abbey, Edward Abbey Quotes
Tagged: 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, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Tagged: Uncertainty, Change, Challenge, Moving Forward
“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, Further Along the Road Less Traveled: The Unending Journey Towards Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Confusion, Uncertainty
“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, The Tent
Tagged: Life, Story, Confusion, Uncertainty, Change
“Write a list of things that are going to get better. Start with you.”
— Unknown, Write a list of things that are going to get better.<br/> Start with you.
Tagged: Improvement, Self-improvement, Change
“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, Daily Haiku On Love
Tagged: Struggle, Life
“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, A Long Way Down
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Struggle, Difficulty
“I thought it would all fall into place. I’ve changed my mind. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions.”
— Mhairi McFarlane, You Had Me At Hello
Tagged: Life, Challenge, Change, Decisions, Self-Direction
“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, Let It All Just Be Experience
Tagged: Life, Change