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• Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

  Lauren Beukes

  Secret, Three, Private Life

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• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.58, Bantam

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• Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Running, Secret, Want

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• Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Latin, Writing

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• The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.

  Stuart McRobert

  Secret, Today, Life Is

  Stuart McRobert (1998). “Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on how to Build Muscle & Might”, C S Publishing

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• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  Emily Eden

  Keeping Secrets, Fool, Instinct

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• This is the great Secret of life.

  Michael Beckwith

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Attraction

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• Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Men

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• The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Breathe, Wanted

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  One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Spiritual, Secret

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• Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Beautiful, Secret, Ugly

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Bird, Secret, Brain

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• Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

  Gregory Maguire

  Secret, Remember, Breathe

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• The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

  Roald Dahl

  Secret, Said, Very Good

  Roald Dahl (2000). “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”, p.38, Penguin

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• For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Mistake, Men

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• The Great Secret of Life is the law of attraction that says like attracts like, so when you think a thought, you are also attracting like thoughts to you.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Positive, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.87

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• Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Clever, Secret, Three

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 02, 2011

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• The secret of life is in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

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• The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Secret, Want

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.70, Penguin

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• Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Dream, Men, Feelings

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

  Anne Sexton

  Hunting, Secret, Might

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• It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.

  Pat Conroy

  Regret, Prayer, Mean

  The Prince of Tides epilogue (1986)

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• Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.

  James Geary

  Thinking, Secret, Essentials

  "Metaphorically speaking". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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