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• The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Order, Law, Appreciate

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• A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Games, Fool

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions”, p.160, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Life Is, Finest

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Philosophy, Love You

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to the plants. . . . "You have nothing to fear," I would tell them. "You don't need your defensive thorns. I will protect you." Gradually the useful plant of the desert emerged in a thornless variety.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Needs, Desert

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• I violate no secret when I say that one of the greatest values in Masonry is that it affords an opportunity for men of all walks of life to meet on common ground where all men are equal and have one common interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Men, Common

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• When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Pulse, Exaltation, Answers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.326, Booklassic

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• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Writing, Discovery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1177, ShandonPress

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• Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Mystery, Wonderful

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• 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

  Heart, Speech, Might

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• If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Men, Office

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Spiritual, Believe, Matter

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

  Steve Jobs

  Silence, Say Anything, Products

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• Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Order, Imperfection, Haute Couture

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• Buddhism is all about secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Enlightened

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• In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Teaching, Enlightenment

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• Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Patient

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• You have to begin to develop a repertory of jokes, multi-plane spiritual jokes, the sort of things the Zen masters tell each other when they're asleep. These are the secret teachings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Teaching

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• Men have learned the secret of unity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Unity, Enlightenment

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the secret password to every soul.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Love Is, Soul, Passwords

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• The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

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• The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Kindness, Yoga

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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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Hate, Yoga

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