Secret Quotes
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
Rumi
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I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.
Ray Bradbury
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We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.
George Eliot
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As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic slave rebellions in the South failed, it became obvious to the conspirators that an actual military invasion was the only solution to their campaign. The merchant bankers of New England, who were directly controlled by the Rothschilds, were no instructed to finance a military attack against the South. Their instrumentality was the already well-known terrorist, John Brown. He was financed by a group famed as "the Secret Six".
Eustace Mullins
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I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.
Christopher Bollen
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
Catherynne M. Valente
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The secret of my success is longevity.
Charles Hartshorne
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
Bram van Velde
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The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
Chris Gardner
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Paul Gauguin
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Honey is a magic elixir—made from the tiny drops of nectar taken from hearts of flowers, carried by little bee feet to a secret cave where it is transformed by time into thick gold sweetness.
Barbara O'Neal
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I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
Nicholas Sparks
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He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Thomas Carlyle
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Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
Elena Ferrante
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That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Melissa Leo
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets.
William O. Douglas
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The whole secret of abundant living can be summed up on this sentence: 'Not your responsibility but your response to God's ability'.
Carl F. H. Henry
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Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
Brad Warner
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When you realize your potential to feel good, you will ask no one to be different in order for you to feel good.
Rhonda Byrne
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We are bound by the secrets we share.
Zoë Heller
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The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.
George Arthur Buttrick
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I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing. This is the secret set -- just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
Helen Gurley Brown