#secret

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#acts #even #heart #into #mind

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#everybody #feel #never #russia #safe

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#preserve #secret #up #wish #wrap

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#keep #secrets #shall #taciturn #their

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#keep #nothing #once #quiet #secret

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#certain #darned #governments #had #know

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