Frank Warren Quotes

The best way to hear somebody else's secret is actually to share one of your true secrets.

I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

I just invite people to share a secret with me. It's not like I'm a psychiatrist who's going to react to it or a priest who's going to give you something to do. When you let it go, there's kind of this void and I think people like that.

There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.

I read your secrets to escape from my own.

You keep a secret inside of you and it feels like a wall that separates you from others.

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.