Secret Quotes - Page 12

• How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings? Can men fly?

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Fall, Angel

  Salman Rushdie (1989). "Los versos satánicos", New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

  Austin O'Malley

  Women, Soul, World

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• And so, in calm expectation of a blessed future and a finished work which will explain the past, in honest submission of out way to God, in supreme delight in Him who is the gladness of our joy, the secret of tranquillity will be ours.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Blessed, Past, Expectations

  Alexander MacLaren "MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture", Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Lakes, Dragons, Towers

  Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”

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• One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

  Edwin Land

  Camino, mejor camino

  "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" by Victor K. McElheny, (p. 7), 1998.

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• I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Believe, Greatness

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• Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

  Stefan Zweig

  Stranger, Advantage, Given

  Stefan Zweig (2008). "The Post-office Girl", New York Review of Books.

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• The secret belief that the Lord of conscience loves and accepts each faithful sacrifice is the ultimate and sufficient support of all goodness; dispensing with the chorus of approving voices; replacing all vain self-reliance with a Divine strength; and with the peace of a reconciled nature consoling the inevitable sorrows of a devoted life.

  James Martineau

  Sacrifice, Self, Voice

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.

  James Martineau

  Spiritual, Lonely, Art

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.

  James Martineau

  Hands, Remembrance, Faithful

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

  Paul Scheuring

  Thought Provoking, Original Thought, Paper

  Fuente: collider.com

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• My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dad, Thinking, Adults

  Fuente: www.theguardian.com

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• I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

  Mike Tyson

  Care, Togetherness, Loved Ones

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way.

  Max Lucado

  Pensamiento, Gente, Diferente

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The most important thing is contribution because the secret to living is giving. If you catch on to that you start realizing that there's nothing you can get that comes close to what you can give. Life is calling all of us to be more than just about ourselves and that is when we get that spiritual hit.

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Giving, Important

  Fuente: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Keeping Secrets, Waiting, Kind

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.

  Igor Babailov

  Trust, Share, Ifs

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• En la primera infancia, los niños desarrollan un conjunto de símbolos que "representan" cosas que ven en el mundo que les rodea... Los niños son felices con el dibujo simbólico hasta los ocho o nueve años... cuando desarrollan una pasión por el realismo. En nuestras escuelas no se enseña a dibujar. Los niños intentan descubrir por su cuenta los secretos del dibujo realista, pero casi siempre fracasan y, lamentablemente, abandonan el intento.

  Betty Edwards

  Niños, Renunciar, Pasión

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• El secreto de un matrimonio duradero es afeitarse las piernas todos los días... porque demuestra que aún te importa.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Shaving, Legs

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• The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Laughing, Strikes, Compunction

  "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.

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• Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  May, Sacred, Lord

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.95, Macmillan

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• Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Deeds, Trouble

  "Macbeth" (1606) acto 5, esc. 1, l. [78]

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• Tomemos al hombre más feliz, al más envidiado por el mundo, y en nueve de cada diez casos su conciencia íntima es de fracaso. O bien sus ideales en la línea de sus logros son mucho más elevados que los logros mismos, o bien tiene ideales secretos de los que el mundo no sabe nada, y con respecto a los cuales se sabe interiormente insuficiente.

  William James

  Failure, Men, World

  William James (1987). "Writings, 1902-1910", p.129, Library of America

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• Hijas de la actitud que las produjo, ciertas mujeres no nos atraerán sin la cama de matrimonio en la que encontramos paz a su lado, mientras que otras, para ser acariciadas con una intención más secreta, requieren hojas sopladas por el viento, agua ondulante en la oscuridad, cosas tan ligeras y fugaces como ellas.

  Marcel Proust

  Daughter, Attitude, Women

  Marcel Proust (2003). "En busca del tiempo perdido Tomo III La vía Guermantes", Modern Library

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• But you I never understood,      Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon      Ages ago in waters cold.

  Sara Teasdale

  Water, Age, Spirit

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.56, Рипол Классик

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