If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; if you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it. —Jiddu Krishnamurti in Think on These Things More about this quote Tags: others virtue beauty self mystery self-image journey comparing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Learn your theories well but put them aside when you confront the mystery of the living soul. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: people soul theories mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got. —Sophia Loren More about this quote Tags: mystery sex appeal sex appeal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. —Nicholas Sparks in The Last Song More about this quote Tags: life memory mystery emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? —Jeanette Winterson More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery awe surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: God mystery deity transcendence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. —Andre Malraux More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery prison universe stars Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. —Raymond Chandler More about this quote Tags: writing mystery novels publishing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else. —Lawrence Kushner More about this quote Tags: wonder mystery explanation obvious Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. —Amy Lowell More about this quote Tags: love mystery universe sex magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Tags: reality mystery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They gave him a seashell: "So you'll learn to love the water." They opened a cage and let a bird go free: "So you'll learn to love the air." They gave him a geranium: "So you'll learn to love the earth." And they gave him a little bottle sealed up tight. "Don't ever, ever open it. So you'll learn to love mystery. —Eduardo Galeano More about this quote Tags: love learning mystery earth water air Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: life mystery explanation craziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: mind world mystery comprehension Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: mystery adventure daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email