Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth
Interpretation
Sometimes it's wiser to keep certain truths to yourself rather than share them.
This quote emphasizes the value of discretion and the recognition that not all truths need to be disclosed. By advocating for silence and keeping secrets, it suggests that there may be wisdom in restraint, prioritizing the preservation of relationships or personal peace over revealing uncomfortable truths that could harm or disrupt.
In practice
In a personal development seminar, one could use this quote to illustrate the importance of being thoughtful about what we share with others.
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lostβa heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
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