Hiding Quotes - Page 28

• What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

  Sarah Vowell

  Asks

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• Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves and others. They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.

  Beverly Engel

  Pain, Crazy, Joy

  Beverly Engel (1990). “The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse”, Ivy Books

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• If you're interested in opening the doors to the heavens, start with the door to your own secret self. See what happens when you offer to another a glimpse of who you truly are. When your heart is undefended, you make it safe for whomever you meet to put down his burden of hiding, and then you both can walk through the open door.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Doors, Self

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• There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep
  seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We
  think that there is something hiding reality and that
  this must be destroyed before reality is gained.
  How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh
  ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day
  you laugh is also here and now.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Past, Reality, Thinking

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• Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.

  Michelle Malone

  Goodbye, Song, Fall

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• I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

  Robert Crumb

  Real, Drawing, People

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• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Hate, Vegas, Funny Things

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• Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavory.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Stars, Ideas, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Change, Eye, Light

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

  Sheridan Smith

  Being Yourself, Character, Kind

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• Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

  Alice Cooper

  Family, Mother, Shields

  Song: Generation Landslide '81, Album: Special Forces, 1981

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• When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

  Portia de Rossi

  Home, Things You Can Control, Paparazzi

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

  James Taylor

  Suicidal, Long, Wife

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• I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.

  Anna Paquin

  Past, Knowing, People

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• Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

  Saddam Hussein

  Causes, Hopeless, Shame

  "Transcript of Saddam Hussein's speech to Iraqis". www.cnn.com. September 3, 1996.

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• Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers.

  Greg Abbott

  Secret, Deceit, Daggers

  "Sony BMG sued by state of taxes over anti-piracy software" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. November 22, 2005.

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• We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Humility, Self Discovery

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.

  Lauren Mackler

  Power, Giving, Feelings

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• The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

  Ryan Bingham

  Stars, Light, Up In The Air

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• History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding their faces from the accuracies of truth speakers like Christ. Now, Christ was the complete opposite of negative, however the danger is that truth is often misunderstood as negativity by those who are constantly taught to only seek flattery.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, Teacher, Opposites

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.47, Criss Jami

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• Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven't noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the other side of the street, to leave the receiver off the telephone because it might be He who was ringing up, to leave unopened certain letters in a strange handwriting because they might be from Him -- this is a different matter. You may not be certain yet whether you ought to be a Christian; but you do know you ought to be a Man, not an ostrich, hiding its head in the sand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Son, Men

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• Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Men, Christian Inspirational, Adam

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1949). “PEACE OF SOUL”

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• Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Trying, Guilt

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.13, Multnomah

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• I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Character, Journey

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2016). “The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight”, p.113, Convergent Books

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• I'm very clever
  at
  hiding poems
  perhaps more
  clever than I
  am
  at
  writing
  them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Clever, Writing, Very Clever

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