Always guarding one’s real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.Life itself had become a secret affair.

On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted;...

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.

Only after you’ve done the exorcism, thenyou’ll understand that ghost’s also a species.

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

I paid a lot of money once to find it out,” Raphael said.

To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.

People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That’s why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they’ve outlasted patent laws...

I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely.

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they...

Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change… sometimes, so do people.

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me…and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free…where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again…in long...

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

We fell into silence, both of us keeping our own secrets of what we’d suffered in the other’s absence. I wondered if we were trying to protect each other or simply didn’t want to admit...

Relationships should be built on trust and truth.

There’s not one good thought in that place. There’s nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation...

Everyone’s got secrets, Jem. It’s what makes people interesting.

I’m just not going to do it so that we can say that we’ve done it. And I’m not going to do it if the first thing you say afterwards is ‘please don’t tell anyone’...

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

It’s easier to hide your smoking habit on a foggy day. Let that be a lesson for you and your secret lover.

Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will work out.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.

I’ve been married, divorced; I’ve been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret… all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.

Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she’s worse.””Worse how?””Normal.

But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.

Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo...

Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off.

Of this poetryI’m left with the emptinessof an endless secret

The first Victoria’s Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

Le grand secret de la vie ne lui était pas inconnu : les femmes ne recherchent pas le bel homme, les femmes recherchent l’homme qui a eu de belles femmes.

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you’ve got...

I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to...

There are things which couldn’t be expressed by the words,when you’ve mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.

The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, one morning or one evening, looked at the world and felt the presence of something greater. They...

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.

Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them...

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

I’m not trying to avoid you,’ I replied lamely, but what else could I say? Sorry Brae but when I first came down to meet you I had no idea how hard it was going...