"When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success."
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"Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret."
"Time is the best kept secret of the rich."
"The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first."
"Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret."
"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."
"The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets"
"You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft."
"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
"Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal."
"Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah"
"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us."
"The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms."
"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
"But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole."
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
"may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living"
"A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see."
"In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit."
"The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer."