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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil… — Therese of Lisieux
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. — Jean Vanier
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins… — Edmund Burke
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close… — Frederick Buechner
Remember that you don't choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into… — Kent Nerburn
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next… — Charles W. Chesnutt
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be… — Rajneesh
Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce… — Eugene Kennedy
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle,… — May Sarton
Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it… — Sogyal Rinpoche
She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in… — Christina Stead
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make their reports and… — Timothy Ball
The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did… — Primo Levi
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery — Ben Harper
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
Mystery is the basic element of all works of art. — Luis Bunuel
Improvisation is a great mystery. You play something, and you play an answer to it. Then you play something to wrap it up. Nothing is… — Unknown Author
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? — Annie Dillard
Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's… — James Dobson
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem. — Raymond Chandler
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact… — Garry Kasparov
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a… — Berenice Abbott
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows… — Robert Mapplethorpe

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