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"If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.” – Václav Havel
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. – Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. – Winston Churchill
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story. – Don Snyder
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye. – Elizabeth Bowen
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again. – Rogers Turrentine
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words---'mank' and 'ind'. What do these words mean It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. – Spider-Man
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. – John Barth
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry
"Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery." - Amit Ray from the book Meditation. – Amit Ray
A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. – Eric Pio
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! – Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox
All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. – A. C. Benson
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery. – Henry Miller
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. – A. C. Benson
As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies. – Paul Sadler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. – Raymond Chandler
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. – Philip
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
Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth. – Dejan Stojanovic
Easter confronts us with a historical event set in time. We are faced with a story of an empty tomb, of a small group of men and women who were at one stage hiding for their lives and at the next were brave enough to face the full judicial persecution of the Roman Empire and proclaim their belief in a risen Christ. – A. N. Wilson
Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. – Rabbi David Wolpe

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