"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave."

Gabirol, Ibn on secrets
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"Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on secrets   

"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."

Hobbes, Thomas on secrets
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

Johnson, Samuel on secrets
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on secrets
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"But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon."

Milton, John on secrets
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

Balzac, Honore De on acceptance
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle."

Carroll, Lewis on self discovery
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"It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient."

Billings, Josh on self discovery
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"Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

Twain, Mark on secrets
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"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."

Harris, Sidney J. on self-conflict
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"Only in your imagination can you revise."

Wray, Fay on regret
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"My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else."

Allen, Woody on regret
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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect."

Lion, The on regret
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"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."

Proust, Marcel on regret
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"The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing."

Viscott, David on regret
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"Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul."

Baudelaire, Charles on rejection
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"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on rejection
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"Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem."

Sher, Barbara on resentment
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"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on resentment
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"Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

Jung, Carl on sadness
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

Baldwin, James on pessimism
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"Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure."

Clinton, Bill on pessimism
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"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."

Garofalo, Janeane on pessimism
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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

Will, George F. on pessimism
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!"

Williams, Tennessee on isolation
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"Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces."

Deshpande, Shashi on introspection   

"An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it."

Reed, Alan on inferiority   

"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."

Herbert, George on inferiority   

"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it."

Gilbert, W. S. on inferiority   

"The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."

Adams, Henry Brooks on inferiority
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