#secret

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction. ↗

— Julie Powell

#humor #secretary #humor

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#imagination #immortality #life #secrets #friendship

People are secretive when they have secrets. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#people #secretive #secrets #life

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #newborn #secret #soul #waiting

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. ↗

— Toba Beta

#control #happiness #joyful #life #mood

An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil, because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#evil #kill #life #peace #pure-spirit

The truth is in the heart; out there is true darkness. ↗