Rebecca Solnit

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation.

- Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost