"Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones."
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"The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived."
"He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant."
"I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good."
"The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!)"
"Whatever you love opens its secrets to you."
"The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand."
"Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed."
"The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first"
"A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public"
"Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity."
"Eating is the secret to good cooking."
"There is no secret of the heart which our actions do not disclose."
"If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him."
"Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out."
"I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control."
"No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets."
"The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal."