A Quotes
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“A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.”
“A secret is a secret in my mind.”
“A secret is a terrible and wonderful thing. It’s a flickering candle flame in your chest, warming you from the inside.”
Source: Riot House
“A secret is powerful when it is empty.”
“A secret is powerful when it is empty. People often mention the "Masonic secret." What on earth is the Masonic secret? No one can tell. As long as it remains empty it can be filled up with every possible notion, and it has power.”
“A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)
“A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.”
“A secret love is beautiful, sweet and sacred when it's just a light infatuation; but when that person reaches over and touches you in the heart, making it alive in a way it has never known, that secret love becomes frightening, because you can never make them love you, you would never want to make them love you...but all the same, no matter which way you view it, they don't love you...and your heart doesn't know how to beat the same.”
“A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth”
“A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.”
Source: Christine
“A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.”
“A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.”
“A secret society within a secret society.”
“A secret spoken finds wings.”
Source: The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series
“A secret talent or hobby Hmm I weirdly collect shot glasses.”
“A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.”
Source: Once Upon A Lie
“A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.”
Source: Écrits
“A secret touch in public, so erotic
Makes my pulse race, I’m chaotic
You’re like a drug, some narcotic
I follow you, cause you’re hypnotic”
“A secret voice whispers to me incessantly that ifI were to live among saints I would need to carry a dagger. [...] How can one not hate the angels, the saints, and God, that entire band from paradise which fuels such a passionate longing for other shelters and other temptations? Heaven irritates me. In its Christian guise, it drives me to despair.”
Source: Tears and Saints
“A secret, when revealed, loses its strength.”
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.”
“A secret, like a chore, always seems to lead to another, one even more troublesome than the first.”
Source: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
“A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.”
Source: The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser
“A secretary is not a toy.”
Source: The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser
“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually a complete world view and way of life in this world.”
“A secular government is a human government, whereas a non-secular government is a government of animals.”
Source: Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
“A secure attachment is the ability to bond; to develop a secure and safe base...”
Source: The Effects of Childhood Trauma on Adult Perception and Worldview
“A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.”
“A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.”
“A security guard stands in front of the doors, yelling at people to get back. He shoves a woman holding the hands of two boys wearing matching polo shirts, private school uniforms. All the lights in the store are off. The windows shattered. Inside, I can make out the dark hallways of rye bread and non-GMO cereal. At the end of the world, organic food is protected.”
Source: Tilt
“A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”
“A sedentary lifestyle is a slow and painful death.”
“A seducer only sees the plot and it's ending, not in the middle, the game of minds only gets interesting with time goes on.”
“A sedução do maravilhoso embota nossas faculdades críticas.”
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“a seed and a glove, symbol of his action and his work. (une graine et un gant, symbole de son action et son travail.)”
Source: Les Contes de la nuit
“A seed blown on the wind could be tomorrow's willow tree.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“A seed cannot grow in stone. Compassion is the fertile soil where life grows.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.”
Source: Unbound
“A seed has a few friends, but a tree has many enemies.”
“A Seed has no energy of its own, but it can respond in the right environment. Every form of life has a capacity for response but none so much as the human being. In an infertile environment this capacity for response may be dormant. The cultivation we need to provide is through conscious awareness. This makes the difference between nominally being alive and being alive abundantly. Life is not just this bioenergetic vitality, but a spiritual vitality that is eternal, and we are that. This life span that we know on earth is said to be one chapter in the story of Life. This eternal Life reflects through us. With awareness we can develop all our faculties. The body, mind, spirit, and ecology form an interconnected whole. When a harmonious relationship exists among all of these, we have abundant life.”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.”
“A seed is a place where things begin their lives. It is not a place where they live their lives, for attempting to do so will end their lives.”
“A seed is happy when it becomes a root,
a root is happy when it becomes a bud,
a bud is happy when it becomes a stem,
and a stem is happy when it becomes a flower.
A thought is happy when it becomes a reflection,
a reflection is happy when it becomes a desire,
a desire is happy when it becomes an action,
and an action is happy when it becomes an experience.
A dream is happy when it becomes a vision,
a vision is happy when it becomes a goal,
a goal is happy when it becomes a plan,
and a plan is happy when it becomes a reality.”
“A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful.”
Source: The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.
“A seed is not yet a tree, but it has everything it needs to be”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.”