Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard
Confiding a secret to an unworthy person is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. — African Proverbs
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited. — Stephen White
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love. — Laura Esquivel
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. — Charles Caleb Colton
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. — W. H. Auden
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca
All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets. — Cory Doctorow
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. — Paul Tournier
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. — Alan Watts
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. — Walter Winchell
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love. — Mary Alice Monroe
Short Sharing Secrets Quotes
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted. — Billy Graham
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. — Jean De La Fontaine
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. — Samuel Johnson
My secrets must be poetic to be believable. — Mick Jagger
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I
If you keep my secret, this strawberry is yours. — Tsugumi Ohba
Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. — Marshall McLuhan
Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda
Women can keep only one secret — their own. — Yiddish Proverbs
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Do Not Share Secrets Quotes
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge. — Sonja Lyubomirsky
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human. — Frederick Buechner
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
We don't know how many people are watching The Grand Tour's - it's a closely guarded secret, we don't even know - the only thing we can do is make a program that we enjoy. And then hope that we're not so unusual that other people won't share our taste. — Jeremy Clarkson
I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it or a priest who's going to give you something to do. When you let it go, there's kind of this void and I think people like that. — Frank Warren
Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden. — Mary Balogh
Keeping Secrets Quotes
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself. — Neymar
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. — Maximilien Robespierre
I never brag, how real i keep it, cause thats the best secret. — Nas
I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret. --L (Death Note) — Tsugumi Ohba
The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety. — Sathya Sai Baba
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. — Proverbs
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. — Rumi
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. — Andrea Gibson
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking. — Fats Domino
Kept Secrets Quotes
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. — Sylvia Plath
His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life. — Veronica Roth
When you can't look on the bright side I will sit with you in the dark.
The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths. — Melina Marchetta
The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. — Frederick Lenz
Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets. — Aliko Dangote
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change. — Joe Biden
The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. — Stephen King
Time is the best kept secret of the rich. — Jim Rohn
Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson
Hidden Secrets Quotes
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure. — Buddha
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us. — Teresa of Avila
The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. — Mike Murdock
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. — Roald Dahl
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. — Roald Dahl
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. — William Goldman
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dark Secrets Quotes
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever. — Susanna Kaysen
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say
It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret. — Vernon Howard
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets. — Sara Shepard
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.
I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. — Pablo Neruda
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht
If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. — Jed Rubenfeld
All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Secrecy Quotes
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote. — Glenn Greenwald
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. — Judith Lewis Herman
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy. — Joseph Pulitzer
If you see a person without a smile, give them one of yours.
Oppression thrives in silence and secrecy. It withers under the bright light of truth. — Alexei Navalny
When you’re trying’ somethin’ new, the fewer people that know about it, the better. — American Proverbs
Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure. — Robert J. Sawyer
Not to mention the truth is hiding gold — Greek Proverbs
A true Cleaner never tells you what he’s doing or what he’s planning. You find out after the job is complete. — Tim Grover
Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. — Edward Teller
Dirty Secrets Quotes
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people. — Lisa Murkowski
It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. — Muriel Spark
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. — Katharine Graham
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. — Frank Miller
The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way. — Paul Schrader
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. — Charles Barkley
We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism. — Henry Cisneros
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set. — Andrew Sullivan
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for. — Robert McKee
Secret Confessions Quotes
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — Saint Jerome
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. — Dorothy Dix
There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams. — Oskar Kokoschka
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — Karl Marx
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson
Self-Criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul. — Adlai Stevenson I
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day. — William Bolitho
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. — Jean Cocteau
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised." — Emile M. Cioran
Darkest Secrets Quotes
Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they’re waiting for you to just let go. — Tim Grover
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. — Conor Oberst
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken. — Rob Bell
No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets. — Tupac Shakur
If depression has been viewed as a taboo subject in the church, then suicide and suicidal thoughts are the darkest secret of all. Talking about it doesn't make it more real or powerful; it brings it out of the shadows into the light and love of Christ. — Sheila Walsh
I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out. — Shay Mitchell
Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? — Kevin Spacey
My dad was a bedwetter; I think his dad was a bedwetter. I like to talk about it because it's something that I thought would be my deepest, darkest secret my whole life, and then you become an adult, and it's not. — Sarah Silverman
What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you. — Aleatha Romig
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings. — Jewel
Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality — Earl Nightingale
Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time. — Earl Nightingale
Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind. — Earl Nightingale
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. — Earl Nightingale
You become what you think about most of the time. — Brian Tracy
No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others. — Earl Nightingale
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. — Earl Nightingale
All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself. — Earl Nightingale
We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret. — Earl Nightingale
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. — Chanakya
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy. — Ron Paul
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share. — Omar Khayyam
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand. — Pablo Neruda
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator. — Peter Thiel
We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet. — Pam Brown
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged. — Henry Giroux
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. — J. I. Packer
We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. — Howard Barker
My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret. — Ashleigh Brilliant
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. — Doris Lessing
Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. — Carol Leifer
Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work. — George Arthur Buttrick
It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use wealth in this world, and neither I nor my friends, nor anyone else I have ever met, has so much of it that they are interested in putting themselves at a disadvantage by sharing their secrets. — Victor Niederhoffer
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice. — Hakim Bey
The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share — Unknown
Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners. — Sophia Loren
Part of your mission in life then must be to share your gifts with as many people as possible. That means being willing to play big. — T. Harv Eker
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. — Don Delillo
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends. — Shirley Knight
... letters freeze time for us, eternalizing shared experiences so we can go back and draw strength from them. Letters are like deposits in a secret bank that can be withdrawn when they are needed. And as we look back in love, we appreciate anew the thought and time that was taken to express those feelings. — Lois Wyse
Vision lifts you up. It makes you smile a secret smile because you know that you have something very special to share. What is your vision? — Debbie Ford
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. — Alice Walton
When you are not willing to fully receive, you are training the universe not to give to you! It's simple: if you aren't willing to receive your share, it will go to someone else who is. — T. Harv Eker
Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share. — M.J. Rose
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. — Mitch Albom
If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it. — Rip Torn
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. — Saint Basil
Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime. — Robert M. Morgenthau
If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them. — Austin Kleon
One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. — Becca Fitzpatrick
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it. — Ian Caldwell
What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. — Oswald Chambers
But some secrets are too delicious not to share. — Suzanne Collins
So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours. — Erin Morgenstern
Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. — Holly Black
When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it. — Jonathan Carroll
The way that we tend to think about privacy is not that you have to keep everything secret, it's not that you can't share anything with other people - it's that you have control over the dissemination of the information about you. — Jennifer Lynch
The elements in a relationship which seem impossible to share, the secretly disturbing, dissatisfying elements, are the most rewarding to share. This is a hard, risky, frightening thing to learn, and it needs to be re-learned over and over. — Carl Rogers
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