#secret

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#believe #defy #deny #life #miracle

Today's Valentine's Day. There's a whole day devoted solely to love. Does that make any sense? Nah. Love makes us all crazy. But it's fun too. ↗

— Lisa Greenwald

#sweet-treats-and-secret-crushes #valentine-s-day #love

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting. ↗

— Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf

#peace #salams #secret #tranquility #love

Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten. ↗

— Suzanne Palmieri-Hayes

#remember #secret #love

Nonsense. Everyone knows Canadians are a peaceful people.” He was laughing now. “Tell that to the White House circa 1812,” I told him. “Oh? Why?” “Because that’s the year the peace-loving Canadians burned it to the ground.” Dominick grabbed an empty bottle and jumped onto his chair. The room got silent in an instant as everyone paused to look at him. “Cheers to 1812.” He lifted his empty bottle. The whole room whooped and raised their full glasses, howling in unison. I could barely hear over the sound of my own laughter. ↗

— Sierra Dean

#dominick #humor #secret #love

How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#secrets #marriage

Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heaven #life #men #secret #today

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen. ↗

— Marlon James

#listening #men #men-and-women #secret #toni-morrison

Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#revelation #secrets #truth #love