The secret of Quotes

“This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.”

“The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.”

“What is the use of the colon? What is a colon? Generally it opens onto an explanation, but it is always done with the help of an interruption. It can be said that the colon is not the period, it is the period of the period, the canceling of the period. It is a moment mute and marked; it is the most delicate tattoo of the text. It is also in place of, instead of, everything that would be causal. For example, when we read: "It's simply that: secret." "Secret," is a sentence, it is the shortest sentence perhaps. But it is a sentence in one word. It is a sentence that is secret and that at the same time says its name. One could invert and say: "Secret: it is simply that." This is secret, the secret is the secret of this, it is a word which makes infinite sense all by itself, it is a sentence which performs the secret itself [Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life, trans Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz, Foreword by Hélène Cixous trans Verena Conley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989]”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“Well, they've come a long way. To think that he now could access a secret document held in the Vatican archives, via electronic technology.”

“The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.”

“If you are open to change and welcome surprise, you know the secret of creativity and the secret of life.”

“...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.”

“The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.”