Ineffability is concerned with ideas that cannot or should not be expressed in spoken words (or language in general), often being in the form of a taboo or incomprehensible term.

1. Ecology & Spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep. Ecological awareness, ultimately is. Spiritual awareness.
Fritjof Capra

2. Every test in our life makes us bitter or better, every problem comes to break us or make us. The choice is ours whether we become victim or victor
Anonymous

3. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams

4. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And you know the way to where i am going.
Anonymous

5. Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.
Mrs. Whatsit

6. The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams

7. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness.

8. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is
Albert Einstein

9. You can break down a real woman temporarily but a real woman will always pick up the pieces, rebuild herself and come back even stronger than ever.
Anonymous

10. I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so full of love could be worshipped by someone whose heart was so full of hate.
Chaim Potok

11. Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he’s challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.Regina Brett

12. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

13. Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.
Heather Choate Davis

14. Ourhunters come from a diversified set of beliefs, but work together toward one goal. And we’re the best at what we do.””But you guys were at the church.”Jayden shrugged. “Father Bancroft is an area leader, so the church is our base, but elsewhere it could be a synagogue, mosque, Buddhist temple. Any holy place will do. We fight demons, not each other.
Aande Kirk

15. Our whole life was around the community, around the families. Ron’s dad was our Cub Scout leader. He taught us how to play softball, how to bowl. My dad ran the teen lounge at the synagogue.
Ron Bernstein

16. No one says “Gee Whiz!” very much these days, of course, not even in America — both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.
Shashi Tharoor

17. Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
William James

18. I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
James A. Michener

19. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

20. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

21. Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you’re a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill.
Anonymous

22. I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen – the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.
Ken Adam

23. Love is not just something that happens to you It is a certain special way of being alive.
Thomas Merton

24. May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day
Anonymous

25. Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions
Anonymous

26. The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
Saint Teresa of Avila

27. An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.
Neil Gaiman

28. I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I’m sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by very low forms of human life, in my opinion.
Ben Brantley

29. Inspiration, move me brightly light the song with sense and color, hold away despair.
Robert

30. He was currently wondering vaguely who Moey and Chandon were.
Terry Pratchett

31. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James

32. The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
Ethan Embry

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33. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

34. Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day . . . overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most
Richie Norton

35. I haven’t seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there’s only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.
Red Grange

36. Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.
Lois McMaster Bujold

37. Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.
Ben Brantley

38. The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don’t just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
Steven Pressfield

39. While the father storms through adjacent rooms ranting with the force of kingdom come, not caring anymore what might snap us in its jaw
Tracy K. Smith

40. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

41. I’d sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value
Douglas Coupland

42. The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own ‘genius’, the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than ‘artist’ in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them
Michael Richardson

43. I think I am really easygoing. Well… as … Well… as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.
Amanda Harlech

44. The very old can tell you about peace. They have fought through the black, sinking, visceral knowledge of death–their own death–that heralds middle age and come to the place where childhood meets them once more, and with it that ineffable treasure that only the very young and old know: the tranquility of the moment. The contentment of living each day as it comes to them, wholly and with all senses. The young do it because they know nothing, yet, of pain and fear and the transience of their lives; the old because they know everything of those things and can bear them only by staying in the moment. Carpe diem> may be the sum of all the world’s wisdom. I have always thought Horace must have been old when he wrote it.
Anne Rivers Siddons

45. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas

46. I need to have something to source my energy to and something to remove me from my own weird brain.
Andy Biersack

47. A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he’s ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
Maureen McCormick

48. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. Thomas Merton

49. Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila

50. More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Saint Teresa of Avila

51. LOVE IS, IN FACT, AN INTENSIFICATION OF LIFE. COMPLETENESS, FULLNESS, AND A WHOLENESS OF LIFE.
THOMAS MERTON

52. Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa of Avila

53. Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This does not mean, however, that poets shouldn’t talk about their poetry, or that one shouldn’t ask questions about it. Rather, it suggests that any discussion of poetry should celebrate its ultimate ineffability and in so doing lead one to further inquiry. I think of that wonderful scene from Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night, where Mosche the Beadle of the local synagogue, in dialogue with the young, precocious author, explains: “Every question possesses a power that does not lie in the answer
Tony Leuzzi

54. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, [ie., everybody.] to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won’t tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time
Terry Pratchett

55. Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent
Pat Conroy

56. You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.
Terry Pratchett

57. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

58. Let’s think the unthinkable, let’s do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams

59. Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.
Frederick Lenz

60. For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution
John Hughlings Jackson

61. I’ve seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That’s the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
Ben Brantley

62. He has spent weeks on the pristine, frosty shore of Lake Baikal in Siberia. He has drunk himself stupid in the fairy-tale blood brothels of old Dubrovnik, lounged in red-smoke dens in Laos, enjoyed the New York blackout of 1977, and more recently, feasted on Vegas showgirls in the Dean Martin suite at the Bellagio. He has watched Hindu abstainers wash away their sins in the Ganges, danced a midnight tango on a boulevard in Buenos Aires, and bitten into a faux geisha under the shade of a shogun pavilion in Kyoto
Matt Haig

63. It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Wendell Phillips