Pema Chodron Quotes

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.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it will change. So I try to play things on such an even keel, knowing that things are going to change. You take the good with the bad; you don't get too excited, you don't get too down and sometimes that's the hardest thing in the world to do when you're in the midst of it, but that's the best way to handle it.

Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

Uncertainty is the necessary companion of all explorers.

I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

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

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

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

You never know what the future brings.

Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

Life is a risk.

When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

It is good to love the unknown.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.