Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip.
Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.
The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
The best secrets are the most twisted
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.
Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins and produce an impulse to hold that whole pattern forther. In other words, it produces a defensive reflex. Not merely is it stuck because it's chemically so well built up, but also there is a defensive reflex which defends against evidence which might weaken it. Thus it all happens, one reflex after another after another. It's just a vast system of reflexes. And they form a 'structure' as they get more rigid.
Let others know when they have hurt or angered you. By not speaking up when someone insults or mistreats you, you are inadvertently giving permission for him or her to continue to treat you in the same way in the future.