Great Throughts Treasury

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Chayim Efrayim Zaichyk

One of the prime causes of unhappiness in the world is approval-seeking.

Character | Unhappiness | World |

Ashtavakra NULL

The phenomenal world is like an empty jar (enclosing Space, which nevertheless is boundless). Thus known, phenomenality need be neither renounced, accepted, nor destroyed.

Need | Space | Wisdom | World |

David Abram

Perception... is a constant communion between ourselves and the living world that encompasses us.

Perception | Wisdom | World |

Clara Lucas Balfour

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven?

Earth | Heaven | Smile | Wisdom | World |

Aphra Behn

He that will live in this world must be endued with the three rare qualities of dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation.

Equivocation | Qualities | Will | Wisdom | World |

Albert Barnes

Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.

Life | Life | Wisdom | World |

J.M. Barrie, fully Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Little | Need | Wisdom | World | Loss | Understand |

Bernard Iddings Bell, formerly Bruce Chilton, fully Canon Bernard Iddings Bell

Good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world as one which enables him to sustain failure.

Education | Failure | Good | Man | Wisdom | World |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.

Wisdom | World |

Babylonian Talmud

Better is one hour of repentance and good deeds in this world than a whole life in the World to Come.

Better | Deeds | Good | Life | Life | Repentance | Wisdom | World | Deeds |

Julius Bate

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

Aims | Life | Life | Man | Mission | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | Wishes | World |

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

Eternity | Heaven | Wisdom | World |

George Dana Boardman "The Younger"

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

Good | Wisdom | World |

Charles F. Banning

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube, it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars' worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity.

Character | Conscience | Eternity | Friend | Gold | Man | Mind | Peace | Sense | Size | Wisdom | World | Worth |

Hugh Blair

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause or unravel the mystery of human events?

Anxiety | Anxiety | Cause | Events | Life | Life | Mind | Mystery | Wisdom | World | Blessed | Parent |

Edwin Baird

You'll do well to remember that in all the world there is no word more important than - "Think!"

Important | Wisdom | World |

Albert Barnes

When we come to die, we shall be alone. From our worldly possessions we shall be about to part. Worldly friends - the friends drawn to us by our position, our wealth, or our social qualities, will leave us as we enter the dark valley. From those bound to us by stronger ties - our kindred, our loved ones, children, brothers, sister, and from those not less dear to us who have been made our friends because they and we are the friends of the same Savior - from them also we must part. Yet not all will leave us. There is One who “sticketh closer than a brother” - One who having loved His own which are in the world loves them to the end.

Children | Position | Possessions | Qualities | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | World | Friends |