Best Mystery Wisdom
2563 Mystery quotes by 1632 unique authors
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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
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
— Jean Vanier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery
— Ben Harper
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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
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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
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Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.
— Luis Bunuel
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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
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
— Annie Dillard
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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
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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
— George Orwell
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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
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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
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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
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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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