Quotes About Mystery

Madeline L'engle

Why does anybody do anything? Mimi asked impatiently. Most of the time we don't know--any of us.

Benny explained that it wasn't her sweater. It was borrowed from a fellow. She wondered why she needed to tell so much to strangers.

That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless.

That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she'd ever met.

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

Sometimes the best conversations between strangers allow the stranger to remain a stranger.

But in other aspects of our lives, I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem. There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and, as we'll explore in the upcoming chapters of this book, doing so can have serious consequences.

We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy.

SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright.

There is no success where there are no secrets.

Stars are howling see moon is caught on fire.

There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain.

It's no mystery, it isn't luck. Success is a result of your obedience to specific principles, rules and laws

Life is hidden in a day and a day is hidden in life.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

For some moments in life there are no words.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

This mysterious path is described in the holy books, but it cannot be found simply by the study of sacred texts. It is found by the grace and guidance of an accomplished teacher.

the possibility of our deliverance lies not in the future but in the past, in a mystery beyond memory.