I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know that they will be.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.

I choose to believe things are possible, even when I don’t know how they will happen.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will — then your life will flow well.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Expectation works in mysterious ways — -and totally unconsciously.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

There's a kind of saying that you don't understand its meaning, 'I don't believe it. It's too crazy. I'm not going to accept it.'… You'll have to accept it. It's the way nature works. If you want to know how nature works, we looked at it, carefully. Looking at it, that's the way it looks. You don't like it? Go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler, philosophically more pleasing, more psychologically easy. I can't help it, okay? If I'm going to tell you honestly what the world looks like to the human beings who have struggled as hard as they can to understand it, I can only tell you what it looks like.

But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises. Or perhaps studying the record more carefully leads us to expect miracles - not when and where we expect them, but to expect to be astonished, to expect that we don't know. And this is grounds to act.

No matter how much we desire certainty, predictability, and guaranteed results, the nature of human existence is fundamentally opposed to any attempt to control what will happen next.

Nature can win if we give her a chance.