Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
If life were predictable
it would cease to be life,
and be without flavor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Further reading: An Uncertain World
Progress of the Human Mind
Never Try To Stop The Music
Predictable?
Is Now a Time to be Reasonable?
Box of Chocolates