"I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this."
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"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself."
"The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible."
"Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it."
"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."
"While the mind sees only boundaries, Love knows the secret way there."
"Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent."
"The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety."
"Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel."
"Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested."
"I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda."
"Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us."
"The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again."
"Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause."
"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself."
"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it."
"Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you."
"You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret."
"The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots."
"You can be happy if you know this secret: Some things are within your power to control and some things are not."