"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."
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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."
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"The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing."
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"The heart is the secret inside the secret."
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"The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"Sphinxes without secrets."
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"Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay."
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"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."
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"This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world."
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"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?"
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"The secret of success is doing something you love, doing it well and being recognized for it"
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"No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace."
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"Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence."
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"Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--"
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"Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path."
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"That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness."
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"All the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them."
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"Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives."
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"He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave."
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