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    Leni Riefenstahl
    “I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”
    ― Leni Riefenstahl
    tags: life, mystery-of-life, reincarnation
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    Solange nicole
    “The World will always need "magic". Without it, Life is nothing but cheap tricks.”
    ― Solange nicole
    tags: believe, life, magic, mystery-of-life, solange
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    Elizabeth Goudge
    “These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.”
    ― Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
    tags: difficult-times, god, mystery-of-life
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: adventure
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    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
    tags: adventure
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
    3347 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
    tags: adventure
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    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
    ― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
    tags: adventure, friendship, teamwork
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    Jason Mraz
    “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
    ― Jason Mraz
    tags: adventure, art, humor, life
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    Mary Downing Hahn
    “You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”
    ― Mary Downing Hahn, The Dead Man in Indian Creek
    tags: adventure, mystery
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle; Corrections And Editor Edgar W. Smith; Illustrators, The Hound of the Baskervilles
    tags: classic, crime, detective, mystery, novel
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    John Green
    “Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”
    ― John Green, Paper Towns
    tags: fiction, mystery, nerdfighters, ya, young-adult
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    Eoin Colfer
    “In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Half Moon Investigations
    tags: boys, girls, half-moon, investigations, mystery
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    Thomas Moore
    “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
    ― Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
    tags: madness, mystery, philosphy, soul
    459 likes

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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: explanation, love, mystery
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    Stevie Nicks
    “Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.”
    ― Stevie Nicks
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    Sue Monk Kidd
    “I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”
    ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
    tags: inspirational, miracles, mystery
    199 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creative, life, mystery, writing
    258 likes

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    Jeff Lindsay
    “You're driving me NORMAL!”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
    tags: humour, mystery, psychological-thriller
    298 likes

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    Derek Landy
    “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.”
    ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant
    tags: mystery, problems, simplicity, solutions
    341 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery
    tags: art, creativity, crime, critic, criticism, detectives, mystery
    238 likes

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    Karen Marie Moning
    “there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.”
    ― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
    tags: faerie, fantasy, mystery, paranormal, romance, supernatural
    117 likes

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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: atheism, mystery
    421 likes

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  • #25
    Deanna Raybourn
    “Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.”
    ― Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave
    tags: fate, mystery
    57 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
    21837 likes

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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5248 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
    2972 likes



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