Secret Quotes
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To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
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Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.
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Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
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The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
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I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.
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Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
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I never allow of any difficulties. The great secret of being useful and successful is to admit of no difficulties.
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It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.
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I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.
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I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not responsible for whether my students care or don’t care. That care has to come from them—not me.” “Where does that leave you?” “No matter what, Ari, my job is to care.” “Even when they don’t?” “Even when they don’t.” “No matter what?” “No matter what.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.
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The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
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There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.
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There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
