Katie

“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning,’ argued the social psychologist Erich Fromm. ‘Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.’ Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities – for success, for happiness, for really living – are waiting.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Sometimes the most valuable of all talents is to be able not to seek resolution; to notice the craving for completeness or certainty or comfort, and not to feel compelled to follow where it leads.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason ”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking