uncertain path Quotes

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

I am an unpredictable journey.

I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take.

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.