"This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star."
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"The heart is a place of secrets."
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"When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them."
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"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well."
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"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time."
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"There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends."
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."
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"Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity"
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"There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body."
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"If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time."
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"The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure."
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"Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it."
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"For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock"
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"Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons."
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"They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?"
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"We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself."
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"The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king."
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"You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold."
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"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity."
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"My secret is simple -- I pray."
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