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“We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.”

Self Desire Hate Secret Materials Ambition Yoga Possession Karma Vanity Frustration Insecurity Egotism Karma Yoga Material Possessions Secret Desire

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.”

Secret Possession Guarantees

Book:In Her Day

Source: In Her Day

“When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.”

Wells Heart Children Secret Possession Granted Privacy Personal Things

Book:Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)

Source: Road Rage: (A Wexford Case)

“Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?”

Giving Children Long Ideas Self Sometimes Moments Earth Secret Wonder Break Series Possession Streams Reincarnation Concealed Infallible Utterance Raindrops

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“But though the professed aim of all scientific work is to unravel the secrets of nature, it has another effect, not less valuable, on the mind of the worker. It leaves him in possession of methods which nothing but scientific work could have led him to invent.”

Mind Secret Effects Aim Method Workers Possession Valuable

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell