Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“…It was embarrassing now to recall with what little regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There are a lot days where I don't know if God exists. There are a lot of days where I think the… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“You don't have to treat me as if I'm made out of glass and might break," she said. "I'm a lot stronger… — B.J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Walnut Trees of Altenburg: The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of the earth… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
“The same solution--that Easter Island was once part of a much larger landmass--would also explain another, very different puzzle, namely the so-called… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“The mature fruit of mystagogy is an awareness that one's life is being progressively transformed by the holy mysteries being celebrated. The… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
“It's goddamned funny in this police racket how an old woman can look out of a window and see a guy running… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The piercing nail has become a key to unlock the door, that I may see the good will of the Lord. And… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In Advaita Vedanta, and in many other ancient wisdom traditions, the world is said to be an illusion. This illusion is commonly… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
“Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy? Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her… — L. Joseph Shosty Copy Share Image
“I was sitting at the bar of the Hegira that night when Ginny came in. The barkeep, an ancient sad-eyed patriarch named… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
It is a sad and very melancholy scene, which must strike everyone who knows and feels that we also have to pass… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I am, a spectator, so to speak of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A society that could heal the dismembered world would recognize the inherent value of each person and of the plant, animal and… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
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