Mystery Quotes - Page 35

• Watercolour is probably the most satisfying of all mediums. Although difficult in the beginning, after practice its mysteries will unfold, providing the utmost pleasure for the dedicated.

  Robert A. Lovett

  Practice, Pleasure, Dedicated

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• There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.

  Paul Nash

  People, Objects

  Paul Nash, Clare Colvin, South Bank Centre, Towner Art Gallery (1989). “Paul Nash places”

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• Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Energy, Pouring

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• Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

  Morris Fishbein

  Doubt, Physicians, Disease

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Dust, Ageless

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.587, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Wise, Wisdom, Children

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360

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• The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Miracle, Devil

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• A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness .

  Albert Pike

  Lying, Littles, Majesty

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed.

  Timothy Leary

  Past, People, Interesting

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.84, Ronin Publishing

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• Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

  Zig Ziglar

  Reading, Wife, House

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• How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Grief, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.132, Penguin

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• Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Ocean, People

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• A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fall, Dark, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Children, Flower, Twilight

  Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”

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• What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

  J. J. Abrams

  Light, Excited, Moments

  "Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser" by Frank Bruni, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 2011.

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• How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control. To calculate on the unforeseen is perhaps exactly the paradoxical operation that life most requires of us.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Balance, World

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• America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, America, Should Have

  Nathaniel Hawthorne “The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life And Death, May, Stones

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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• I have always had this very strong, call it a feeling, call it a prejudice, call it a conviction ... that the mysteries are not easily available. You have to earn entrance into them. You didn't learn things for too little. You had to pay a price. And I felt that LSD was just blasting superhighways into the mysteries. And what I really didn't like about LSD is that people who were taking it were seeming to become less and less as they took it. They got emptier and more vapid.

  Norman Mailer

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.

  Norman Mailer

  Meaningful, Believe, Wind

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.520, Harvard University Press

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• Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

  Hippocrates

  Sacred, Persons, Has Beens

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• Most mysteries are soluble in time.

  Austin O'Malley

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• I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.

  George F. Kennan

  Seductive, Childhood, Promise

  GEORGE F. KENNAN (1967). “MEMOIRS 1925-1950”

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