It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting.… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“Do you think the Goblin King really did it?" asked Cordelia hesitantly. All the sheep knew she was talking about George's death.… — Leonie Swann Copy Share Image
I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, I realized, was how… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is… — David Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of… — James Henley Thornwell Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“When we perceive the stars, the stars are the object of our perception—they exist within us. When we perceive the ocean, the… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Some people love magic for the right reasons: They love to experience wonder. They don't want to know how it works. In… — Justin Willman Copy Share Image
“What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I cannot speak… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down. The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“One night, we workers formed a circle around the tallow candle as it burned, allowing each other to bond by holding hands.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Thoughts of heaven quicken our faith. Our only sure and solid foundation is the hope of heaven. The only solution to earth's… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for."… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All I really know in nonfiction is that when I come home, I've got all these notes and I'm trying to figure… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“(From the Author Note at the beginning of the book.) Dorothy L. Sayers used to say that mystery stories were the only… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
