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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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• 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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• 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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• "Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"

  Gavin Lyall

  Men, Wings, Flying

  Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• 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 do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Believe, Secret

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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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• 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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• We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Pain, Real

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.359, Spectra

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• Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

  Silas House

  Long, Waiting, Secret

  FaceBook post by Silas House from Jun 24, 2013

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• (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

  Stefan Zweig

  Notebook, Education, Learning

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• Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

  Janet Frame

  Jobs, Giving Up, Angel

  Janet Frame (1990). “Daughter buffalo”

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• In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Lying, Moving

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.115, Omnibus Press

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• Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sin, Mercy

  'Timon Of Athens' act 3, sc. 5, l. 3

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• Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.

  James Joyce

  Stars, Memories, Secret

  James Joyce (2016). “THE DEAD (Modern Classics Series)”, p.32, e-artnow

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Love You, Forever

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.18, Grove Press

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• The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

  Alexis Carrel

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Secret

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• We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

  Alexander Theroux

  Time, Memories, Sadness

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• Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Art, Healing, Practice

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• We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Secret, Life Is, Great Experiences

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.125, Mondial

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• Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

  P. D. James

  People, Secret

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Jul 27, 2016

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• At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

  James D. Watson

  Distance, Science, Discovery

  James D. Watson, Alexander Gann, Jan Witkowski (2012). “The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love is his message. Every gesture of his hand is pointing to the moon. And this whole thing is not being done, it is a happening. The master is not a doer. He has learned the greatest secret of life: let-go. The master has drowned his ego and the idea of separation from existence itself.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Real, Teaching

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