Accepting the Unknown Quotes

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

As for the future, you can never predict it, so I don't even think about it.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

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.