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May you find great value in these Agnostic quotes and sayings.
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
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The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
The world is incomprehensible.
We won't ever understand it;
we won't ever unravel its secrets.
Thus we must treat the world as it is:
a sheer mystery.
- Carlos Castaneda
Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong
To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Often the hands will solve a mystery
that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
- Carl Jung
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
It was the experience of mystery -
even if mixed with fear -
that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
One may say the eternal mystery of the world
is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
Breathe and let be.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let light shine through the cracks
in the armor of your staunchest beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Can you let go of words and ideas,
attitudes and expectations?
If so, then the Tao will loom into view.
- Lao Tzu
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let us not look back in anger
or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
- James Thurber
Let it be.
- Paul McCartney
In meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere
is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Stay at the center
and let all things take their course.
- Lao Tzu
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling,
in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome
which comes out of allowing things to be as they are
without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them,
in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar
When you are eating, eat totally -
chew totally, taste totally, smell totally.
Touch your bread, feel the texture.
Smell the bread, smell the flavor.
Chew it, let it dissolve into your being,
and remain conscious - and you are meditating.
And then meditation is not separate from life.
- Osho
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
Let's Roll.
- Todd Beamer
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
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