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"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know."
It is "I can't know."
"I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
- Wener Karl Heisenberg
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If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey 
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cherish the uncertainty of life's adventures.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
The movie character Forrest Gump describing life
as being "like a box of chocolates,"
is such a positive upbeat way of
characterizing the uncertainty of life.
I have no idea what life will give me next,
but whatever it is, it will be sweet.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A state of expectancy is a great asset;
a state of uncertainty -
one moment thinking "perhaps"
and the next moment thinking "I don't know" -
will never get desired results.
- Ernest Holmes
My life is the eye of the hurricane -
an island of calm in a sea of uncertainty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
I forgive myself and others for that
which is done (and better left undone)
and also that which is not done (and better if done).
I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.
I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride.
But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid.
Savor the adventure.
Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.
Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life -
as you did on that roller coaster.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
For everything I observe or experience,
I create a story - not sometimes, but always.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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