Mystery Quotes - Page 32

• A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

  Keith Miller

  Desert, Forests, Bones

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• Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Couple, Mean, Challenges

  Kirk J. Schneider (1990). “The Paradoxical Self: Toward an Understanding of Our Contradictory Nature”, Prometheus Books

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• Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

  J. J. Abrams

  Technology, White, Imagination

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• I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Memories, Hangover

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• 'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls

  Kenneth Patchen

  Book, Fall, Wine

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm just looking for a little mystery in life... like things you can't explain. Like, you go to Mexico, they tell you don't drink the water. You go to any diner here, who brings you the water? It's a mystery.

  Ted Alexandro

  Funny, Water, Mexico

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• The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Love Is, Like Love, Energy

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

  Rajneesh

  Artist, Knowing, World

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

  Alice Meynell

  Change, Childhood, Turns

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• Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Understanding, Meaning Of Life

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

  Nina Blackwood

  Journey, Rocks, Together

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• There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Science, Enough

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.3, Xist Publishing

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• All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Philosopher, Vain

  "A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English". Book by Anthony Burgess, October 1992.

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• We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

  Richard Bach

  Princess, Adventure, Thinking

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• I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

  Heather King

  Home, Night, Ideas

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• A day is a miniature eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Eternity, Miniatures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Two, Mind

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• In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

  Laozi

  Science, Done, Easy

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• The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

  William Herschel

  Science, Garden, Heaven

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

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• Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Silence

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• Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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