“I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.” PainJoySecretSadnessEmotionalWeaknessVulnerableExpertsPsychicsHaving StrengthStrength WeaknessHappiness Sadness Book:True You Source: True You
“The 2nd secret to success is to be emotionally 'engaged' with your goals, but not emotionally attached. What's the difference? When you are emotionally engaged you create excitement & enthusiasm for the possibility of achieving your goals, but when you are emotionally attached you create fear & pain that you might not.” MightPainSuccessGoalDifferencesSecretAchievePossibilityEnthusiasmExcitementEngagedSecret To SuccessAchieving Your Goals Author:Hal Elrod
“Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.” IfsPainSecretCreativityTroubleDoorsSilentConfessionRevealing Author:Eric Maisel
“A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.” PainSecretOne ThingCrossesPassionateObviousGravesAgendasRitualCampsDedicatedBootsGroundedDiscomfortLegionInitiationOrdealsSecret SocietyBoot Camp Book:Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback
“There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.” PeopleIfsRealHelpingPainUnderstandingLossGriefSecretAcceptingHonestGainsMirrorsWho You AreClubsBeing HonestWho We Are Author:Melody Beattie
“Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.” ArtMadeStatesWholeCarePainNightWaitingDarkSecretSweetPureAngelSightAriseCuresAwakeHollowNursingNoonConsoleSuspendedSlumberRestoringWeavingHandmaids Author:Bram Stoker
“Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.” PeopleIfsGivingEarthPainLiteratureResultsPartySecretMagicDestructionCourtLiberationMarvelousWrathReproachLumpsFamily FriendsDisapproval Author:Michael Chabon
“The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.” IfsWayTryingStatesReasonPainHateCausesSecretForeverLoversTruth IsRelationBelovedCrave Author:Carson McCullers
“If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?” IfsLooksFeelingsPainFoundPleasureSecretCapableMachinesRingsStuckInsaneCuresWheelsBellsWithin YouDefectsCravingPain And PleasureMeaning LifeStovesLiving AloneAlacrity Book:Kingsor's Last Summer Source: Kingsor's Last Summer
“Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.” NeedsDoneWholeHappensPainLastsDesireFeltSecretAttentionDoorsMinutesStageTerribleRagePreparationAirplaneCrashThirstPreparingSuicidalHostilityAlleviateLast MinutePsychiatricParachutesVengeful Author:Tracy Thompson
“When a hunger pain happens, that's your bodies way of saying it's too late, you're a fat storing machine now. The key and all trainers know the secret is that you should always take portable snacks with you and try to feed yourself every couple of hours.” KnowsWayShouldTryingBodyHappensPainHoursSecretKeysCoupleLateMachinesHungerYour BodyFatsToo LateTrainersSnacks Author:Jackie Warner