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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. -- Frank Herbert
I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave. -- Billy Graham
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. -- Khalil Gibran
I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something. -- Jonny Lang
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life -- Meher Baba
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? -- Nikos Kazantzakis
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life. -- Charles Willson Peale
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. -- Marion Woodman
Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day. -- Kent Nerburn
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. -- Agnes Martin
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others. -- Albert Schweitzer
You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion. -- Pope John Paul II
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. -- Nadine Gordimer
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament. -- Bruno Schulz
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life. -- Fernando Pessoa
Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life. -- Jane Smiley
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. -- Paul Davies
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. -- Jerry Saltz
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life. -- Abbas Kiarostami
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind. -- Agnes Martin
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. -- Harry Houdini
I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us. -- Ashley Greene
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one. -- Timothy Olyphant
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me. -- Manolo Blahnik
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. -- William Ralph Inge
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life - I think vampires are really sexy because there's so much that you don't know about them. There's a lot of mystery. -- Kayla Ewell
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. -- Giorgio de Chirico
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. -- Joseph Addison
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. -- Jane Smiley
I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that. -- Maggie Q
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. -- Tennessee Williams
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death. -- Beth Gibbons
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. -- Michael Ende
The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life. -- Eugene Kennedy
Life is a great mystery. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble. -- Paula Fox
Look at this life - all mystery and magic. -- Harry Houdini
Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery. -- Veronica Roth
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life. -- Jules Renard
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely. -- Agatha Christie
Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront. -- James Frey
My life was a mystery even as I lived it. -- Melissa Gilbert
The great mystery of life is the length of it. -- Venita VanCaspel
A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved. -- Albert Einstein
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. -- Gertrude Atherton
I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life. -- Albert Einstein
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. -- Annie Dillard
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size. -- Stephen King
The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life. -- Eudora Welty
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- Al McGuire
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. -- Richard Ford
Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough. -- Ingrid Bengis
Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem! -- Rajneesh
A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone. -- Keith Miller
Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life. -- Nicolas Provost
If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it? -- Sidney Buchman
The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. -- Lewis Mumford
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. -- Hafez
LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? -- Louise Fitzhugh
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. -- John Fowles
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. -- Mother Teresa
The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. -- Henry Miller
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up. -- Charles Dickens
Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore
There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery. -- Andy Rooney
Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
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If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life. -- Akemi G
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. -- Jeanne Moreau
Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. -- Amit Ray
Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. -- Gerard Straub
The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life. -- Orhan Pamuk
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery. -- Joseph Campbell
To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. -- Rajneesh
People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it. -- Paulo Coelho
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? -- Annie Dillard
The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion. -- John Eudes
That he loved her was his life's greatest grace"?that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare. -- Rosalind Miles
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery. -- Adriana Trigiani
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren. -- Jules Michelet
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. -- Jamaica Kincaid
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it. -- Anthony Liccione
We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet. -- Gabrielle Roth
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? -- Honore de Balzac
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour. -- Maynard James Keenan
Leap through the Mystery of death as the circus-rider leaps through the papered hoop ... find Life ambling along beneath us on the Other Side. -- Sidney Lanier
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need. -- Max Lucado
Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers. -- Linda Hogan
As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up. -- Max Beesley
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss. -- Joseph Campbell
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. -- Nadine Gordimer
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. -- Paul Davies
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf -- Annie Dillard
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan -- Aleister Crowley
It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security. -- Erwin McManus
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. -- Anne Tyler
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. -- H. G. Wells
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away -- Anne Tyler
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen. -- Isabel Allende
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding. -- Paulo Coelho
Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea! -- Elizabeth Prentiss
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 courageous! -- Rajneesh
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small. -- Isabel Allende
Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language, interpret its words and enter into the mystery of life. -- Amit Ray
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati

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