#secret

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#happy #helping-others #joy #life #secret

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?" "It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah. "No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool") ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#creativity #death #dream #fantasy #imagination

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief. ↗

— Susan Bennett

#life-journey #secrets #thrilling-life #life

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#mystery #secret #life

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#fact #i #laugh #make #secret

Only after you've done the exorcism, then you'll understand that ghost's also a species. ↗

— Toba Beta

#ghost #life #secret #species #truth

Genetic code is a divine writing. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #divine #dna #genetic #god

لقد وقفت مشدوها يا صديقي، وكأني أرى هذا المزيج الهلامي المعلق بين الأرض و السماء كأني أرى الإرادة المجتمعة ، كأني أرى كل ما لدى الناس من حب وقد ضمته صرخة واحدة. كأن تلك الأجساد الخشنة الملوثة بالطين والتراب تفرز مادة أكثر سمواً من الحياة ، خلاصة الحياة، جماع كل ما هو قادر فيها وقاهر ، وجماع كل ما لا يمكن مقاومته ، القوة العليا الخارقة ، سر الحياة . ↗

— Yusuf Idris

#life

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning. ↗

— Andrei Codrescu

#life

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable... ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#secrets #shame #truth #life