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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

  Gilda Radner

  Topics in Confusion, Death, Life

  Tags in Ending

• People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

  Jane Haddam

  Topics in Confusion, History

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Topics in Advice, Confusion, Friendship, Grief, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Confusion, Despair

• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large; I contain multitudes.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Diversity, Inconsistency

• If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Confusion, Leadership

  Tags in Awareness, Doubt/Uncertainty, Learning, Attention

• Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Topics in Confusion, Life

• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
  Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
  Let the lover be.

  Unknown

  Topics in Confusion, Love

  Tags in Rumi, Worry

• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  Molly Ivins

  Topics in Confusion, Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Order

• It is not “history” which uses men as a means of achieving — as if it were an individual person — its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Purpose

• One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs, Confusion

  Tags in Confusion, Questions

• How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Topics in Confusion, Life

  Tags in Ethics, Responsibility, Duty, Evil, Questions, Maturity, Choice, Choosing

•  People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hocpe for them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Confusion, Risk

  Tags in Security

• Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

  Thomas Alva Edison

  Topics in Confusion, Progress, Risk

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Simplicity

• You always admire what you really don’t understand.

  Blaise Pascal

  Topics in Confusion, Truth

  Tags in Mediocrity, Understanding, Ignorance

• I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Understanding, Communication

• The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

  Francis Bacon

  Topics in Confusion, Mistake, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Observation, Understanding, Imagination

• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Topics in Confusion

  Tags in Seventy, Haven, Eighty, Course, Year, Your, Great, Change, Changed, Secret, Share, Really, Old, Body, Confusion, Cause

• The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

  M. Scott Peck

  Topics in Attitude, Confusion

  Tags in Chaos, Awareness, Change/Growth, Conflict, Worry, Difficulties