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Secret Quotes (page 56)

To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible. Charles Dickens
A goal stood before Siddhartha, a single goal: to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishing, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow. Dead to himself, not to be a self any more, to find tranquility with an emptied heard, to be open to miracles in unselfish thoughts, that was his goal. Once all of my self was overcome and had died, once every desire and every urge was silent in the heart, then the ultimate part of me had to awake, the innermost of my being, which is no longer my self,... Herman Hesse
Benjamin Franklin quote: "three can keep a secret if two are dead."- benjamin franklin"
three can keep a secret if two are dead."- benjamin franklin Benjamin Franklin
Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. Herman Hesse
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother..."
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw
Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it rend us asunder? Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? And then what strange powers are these that penetrate our most secret ways and change our most treasured possessions without our willing it? Had Orlando, worn out by the extremity of his suffering, died for a week, and then come to life again? And if so, of what nature is... Virginia Woolf
John D. Rockefeller quote: "The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well. John D. Rockefeller
Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks. Wassily Kandinsky
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed. Diane Arbus
Donald Justice quote: "Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me..."
Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life. Donald Justice
Leonard Cohen quote: "I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the..."
I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life. Leonard Cohen
Truman Capote quote: "Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that..."
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller. Truman Capote
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. David Foster Wallace
here where we are concerned not with the dogma of Scripture and the Corycian cavern only, but in very truth with the awful secrets of the Divine Majesty (namely, why he works in the way we have said), here you smash bolts and bars and rush in all but blaspheming, as indignant as possible with God because you are not allowed to see the meaning and purpose of such a judgment of his. Martin Luther
Iris Murdoch quote: "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch

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