Secret Quotes - Page 76

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

At the heart of all things is love.

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line.

Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

There are secrets I will take to the grave and others I'd feel safer having cremated.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

They remember to do it all the time.

Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . .those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

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

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Concentration is the secret of srength.