#answers

I felt alone on the planet, drifting through the cosmos. With both hands I reached out to the night. There was no answer. Or maybe I just couldn't hear it. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#life #life

I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything. ↗

— Pete Nelson

#questions-and-answers #experience

Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. . . At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. . . Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust. . . ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#inspiration #life #questions #inspirational

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #contentment #finding-answers #going-with-the-flow #inner-fulfilment

Who knows why that man planted those fields? Perhaps he knew we’d need the flowers for a cure. Maybe he just thought they were beautiful, like my mother did. But we do find answers in beauty, more often than not. ↗

— Ally Condie

#beauty #beauty

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #questions #thinking #man

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certain #certainty #challenge #challenging #children

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#confined #decree #doctrine #left #lust

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers. ↗

— Les Brown

#commitment #give #life #make #need

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. ↗

— Vince Cable

#answers #humility #means #partnership #party