Secret Quotes - Page 36

• It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

  Saadi

  Silent, Secrecy

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.149, Innovations and Information

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• The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

  Saadi

  Wise, Sports, Kings

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.97, Innovations and Information

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• The secret of zen is just two words: not... always... so.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Two

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• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Memories, Men

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• Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Law, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Truth, Tedious, Falsehood

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• Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

  Seneca the Younger

  Grief

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• I think I'm just as good as anyone. That's the way I was brought up. I'll tell you a secret: I think I'm better! Ha! I remember being aware that colored people were supposed to feel inferior. I knew I was a smart little thing, a personality, an individual - a human being! I couldn't understand how people could look at me and not see that, because it sure was obvious to me.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Book, Matter, Anthropologists

  Rigoberta Menchú (2009). “I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)”, p.289, Verso Books

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• I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

  Linda Hogan

  Mother, Knowing Everything, Guessing

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• I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

  Vicki Baum

  Tired, Infidelity, Growing

  Vicki Baum (1964). “I know what I'm worth”, London

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• Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

  Tracy Thompson

  Pain, Airplane, Suicidal

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• Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

  Jean Maalouf

  Kindness, Keys, World

  Jean Maalouf (2003). “The Healing Power of Kindness”, p.4, Twenty-Third Publications

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• Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

  Waller R Newell

  Country, Pride, Men

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• Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

  Paul Gillin

  Dirty, Data, America

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• The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Money, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.377

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• It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Long

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “The Agony of Alice”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.

  R. C. Sherriff

  Power, Men, World

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• The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

  Lu Yen-hsun

  Life, Order, Magic

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• Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.

  Dan Chaon

  Wise, Real, Class

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• My three favorite travel writers of all time are Robert Louis Stevenson, Graham Greene, and Chuck Thompson. Smile When You're Lying not only tells the truth about the travel-writing racket, it gets to the heart of some of the travel industry's best-kept secrets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Soul, Lasts, Firsts

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• Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

  Jadakiss

  Devil, Corn, Satan

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• Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence.

  John Galt

  Men, Self, Feelings

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