Secret Life Quotes - Page 3

• Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Secret, Trying, Said

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• I think everybody has a secret life.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Secret

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Secret

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• Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?

  Emily Eden

  Keeping Secrets, Fool, Instinct

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120

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• When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Mistake, Fall

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• You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Missing, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.198, Rajpal & Sons

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• To have a purpose that is worthwhile, and that is steadily being accomplished, that is one of the secrets of life that is worth living.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Secret, Purpose, Worthwhile

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• Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Men

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• Everyone lives three versions of themselves; a public life, a private life and a secret life.

  Lauren Beukes

  Secret, Three, Private Life

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• The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Breathe, Wanted

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• Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don’t want anything. Everything will run after you.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Running, Secret, Want

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• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

  Og Mandino

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.58, Bantam

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• You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

  Tony Curtis

  Life, Girl, Secret

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• This is the great Secret of life.

  Michael Beckwith

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Attraction

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• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Helping Others, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Secret, Stuff, Painting

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• In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Ice, Play

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.150, Routledge

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• I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

  Anne Lamott

  Secret, Trying, Giants

  Anne Lamott (1980). “Hard Laughter: 2”, Viking Adult

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• I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

  Leonard Cohen

  Lying, Secret, I Smile

  Song: In My Secret Life, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Secret, Want

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• The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we end up conforming, following everyone else. We want to be stronger so we lead that life inside, thinking of ourselves as these great brave souls. I literally thought when I was 15 that I was a musical genius and I could change the world, but in fact you're not and you can't and you don't, and that realisation is almost heartbreaking.

  Katie Melua

  Reality, Thinking, Musical Genius

  "Katie Melua: I want to start afresh". The Telegraph, September 15, 2007.

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• The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

  Paul Davies

  Lying, Secret, Succeed

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• You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Special You

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• A quarter of my life has been spent on 'Secret Life.' I'm 20 and I've been doing it for five years, so I think the best moments have been when all the cast members get to work together and we get to collaborate and share experiences. We all grew up together.

  Shailene Woodley

  Thinking, Years, Secret

  "Shailene Woodley channels her 'Inner 'Glee' for 'Secret life'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2012.

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