#secrets

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. ↗

— Colin Powell

#failure #hard #hard work #learning #preparation

It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part. ↗

— Dana Candler

#beauty #christian #dana-candler #heart #inspirational

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

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. ↗

— David Suzuki

#much #nature #out #secrets #studying

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#here #inside #little #reveal #saying

Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her eyes to sniff at its contents. A smile told him it smelled delicious, but she didn’t open the container to pinch off a sample. Instead, the basket lowered to swing at her side as it had previously done. All at once the air was filled with soft singing--a sweet, merry tune comprised of ludicrous lyrics. It was impossible not to grin at the words. “Rainbows paint the sky ‘til the sun melts their colors. Swinging in the wind, whiskered cattails purr. The pigs gallop by and snort at the moon, While frogs kiss the lizards and princesses too.” ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreamland #dreams #gavin #richelle #richelle-goodrich

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 matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force. ↗

— Téa Obreht

#secrets #life

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

— Nicholas Sparks

#secret