Embracing the Unknown Quotes

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Find a way to say “Yes” to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learning a new language, picking up a new sport. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job. Yes is how you find your spouse, and even your kids.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

You don't know what you can do until you try.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.