Mystery Quotes

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

Writing should be an adventure, shrouded in mystery and uncertainty, blessed with amazing grace. In theory, of course

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.

Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?

Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of 'life.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.