Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

About Myrtle Reed

Myrtle Reed (September 27, 1874 – August 17, 1911) was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist. She wrote a number of bestsellers and published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green.

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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. It isn't charity to give away things you want to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.

—Myrtle Reed

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us—and to which we have no right.

—Myrtle Reed

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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.

—Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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God is hiding in the world and our task is to let the divine emerge from our deeds.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Undertow

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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