Difficulties Are Meant To Rouse, Not Discourage

If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing

If our world were as predictable as we believe it should be,
we would never be inspired to be creative or adventurous.
Let us give thanks that our world is designed to challenge us
and to bring out the best of the human spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

Further reading: Progress of the Human Mind

An Uncertain World

Never Try To Stop The Music

Is Now a Time to be Reasonable?

Predictable?

Box of Chocolates