#secret

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks. ↗

— Frank Warren

#life #postsecret #risks #inspirational

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret. ↗

— Sue Miller

#love #secrets #sue-miller #while-i-was-gone #forgiveness

...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#forgiveness #god #grace #mercy #omniscient

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#behind #certain #certain things #crime #make

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. ↗

— Max Muller

#another #astonished #been #deeply #did

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#i #kept #more #need #secrets

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems. For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant. ↗

— Rachel Lloyd

#children #incest #love #pain #rape

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#gossips #other #people #secret #virtues

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#secret

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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