There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't… — J. T. Walsh Copy Share Image
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the… — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool. Though I am in still water far away from its centre, I feel the… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think Hemingway's [book] titles should be awarded first prize in any contest. Each of them is a poem, and their mysterious… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A pregnant woman and her spouse dream of three babies--the perfect four-month-old who rewards them with smiles and musical cooing,the impaired baby,… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,” she directed at the Falconers, “Sir Viktor’s holding a house party… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The power generated of ten minds for good is superior to that of ten thousand minds acting on a lower motive. But… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image