CURATED COLLECTION

Facing Uncertainty

The future has never been knowable — and the people who did great things knew it and went anyway.

91 quotes found

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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

—Lao TzuPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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Change is difficult and change is what also creates opportunity.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Exile changes your perspective, not your soul. It reshapes the horizon.

—Amin MaaloufNovelist

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

—Bruce LeeMartial Artist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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The future is unwritten, waiting for the brave to dream and act upon it.

—Gioconda BelliPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

—Elizabeth Cady StantonActivist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To surmount the obstacles in the way of true progress.

—Mariama BâNovelist & Feminist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

—Oscar WildePlaywright & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Life is like a ship, which must brave the storms and not just anchor in port.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

—Angela DavisActivist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • North America

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There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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Through practice, we can change our minds and hearts. Transformation is always possible.

—Dalai Lama (14th)Spiritual Leader

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I?

—Bob MarleyMusician

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Progress is never inevitable. It requires struggle and constant vigilance.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Let no one uproot the Pumpkin.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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