Echoes

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.

I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose — which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Accept everything just the way it is.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

What cannot be eschewed must be embraced

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.

A man must shape himself to a new mark when the old one goes to ground.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease.