Seth Godin Quotes

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

There are always loose ends in real life.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.

It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.

I'm never absolutely sure of anything, and I don't want to be. You're either right and you'll pull through, or you're not. We're never going to be right about everything, and we've certainly been wrong.

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

I trust people to be human. Sometimes you do things that make amazing amounts of sense; sometimes you do things that don't make any sense whatsoever.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.