Emily Dickinson Quotes

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Emily Dickinson

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• Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Literature
  • Secret
  • Western

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Secret
  • Offset

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Secret

• There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• They don't know you're secretly a badass?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Secret
  • Badass

• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Secret

• Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Different
  • Secret
  • Mountain

• Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Feels

• The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Goal

• Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Good
  • Death
  • Attention

• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Free
  • Secret

• The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Emotion

• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  

  Thomas Mitchell Morris
  • Life
  • Perception
  • Life is

• Life is too short to be in a hurry.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Short

• You can only be your best self. When I initially got on the air, I would look around me and watch people that I thought were really good and try to be like they were. And I got to a point where I realized, "I can't be them." I can only be the best that Abby can be. And as long as I'm myself and I'm genuine and I'm real, then I think that's all you can do.

  

  Abby Huntsman
  • Real
  • Think
  • Air

• When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Intense
  • Elevation

• Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Kind
  • Including
  • Randomness

• When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.

  

  Minka Kelly
  • Better
  • Workout
  • Cycling

• Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Secret
  • Life is
  • Whisper