Quotes of: Complete-mystery Keyword

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union, to fiercely search for and try to say the truth, and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation.

The Essential Rumi

Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer

Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

The Four Stages of Cruelty: A Novel

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The Great Gatsby

You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.

Brida

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Rumi

My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, ...

Bonnie Bassler

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?

Arthur Phillips

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely popula...

Richard Flanagan

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life Into a Work of Art

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

I don’t often need rescuing, but it’s nice when it goes well and doesn’t involve great heights.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Just a quick glimpse to assure myself that everything was buttoned and unbuttoned in the best places and pointing in the right direction.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

I'm pretty good with a screwdriver. I don't mean the drink, though actually, now I come to think of it…

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery