I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
― Chuck Palahniuk

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Who know a smart phone could take a bad picture? I had no idea and almost deleted it, but the colors were interesting so I held onto it for a while. And, now look, kaleidoscopes! No special lighting or retouching, just a selfie gone wrong from my smart phone.

 

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets…
― Sara Shepard, Flawless

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out my front yard is the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
― Frank Herbert, Dune

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is a royalty-free image from Pixabay.

I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.
― Anne Lamott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. It turns out my front yard is the perfect breeding ground for mushrooms… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
― Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot’s Ghost: A Christmas Story

 

 

 

 

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. Who know a smart phone could take a bad picture? I had no idea and almost deleted it, but the colors were interesting so I held onto it for a while. And, now look, kaleidoscopes! No special lighting or retouching, just a selfie gone wrong from my smart phone.