Great Throughts Treasury

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Elif Safak

A man who cries all night until destroyed, and the next morning continued the day with a smile called Woman.

Meanness | Praise | Weakness |

Elihu Root

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

Desire | Policy | Right |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

This conversation, you will not be surprised to know, was the impetus for their breakup, given that it caused her to realize the emotion that she had thought was her not liking him very much was, in fact, her not liking him at all. Because despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Desire | Heart | Memory |

Albert Einstein

If you ask for the purpose or goal of society as a whole or of an individual taken as a whole the question loses its meaning. This is, of course, even more so if you ask the purpose or meaning of nature in general. For in those cases it seems quite arbitrary if not unreasonable to assume somebody whose desires are connected with the happenings.

Action | Consequences | Desire | Earnestness | Fulfillment | Individual | Life | Life | Mankind | Opinion | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Struggle |

William Shakespeare

ROSALIND: But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? ORLANDO: Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much. ROSALIND: Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

Desire | Good | Hope |

William Shakespeare

Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found, a love that makes breath poor and speech unable.

Behavior | Cause | Children | Contempt | Counsel | Desire | Duty | Father | Fear | Friend | Good | Grace | Heaven | Honor | Love | Marriage | Mind | Obedience | Pity | Pleasure | Right | Sacred | Time | Wife | Will | Wise | Wit | Woman | Friendship | Counsel | Friends |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.

Absence | Children | Desire | Enough | People | Reason | Regret | Thinking | Witness | Think |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized that I am not Ketut Liyer's English teacher, nor am I exactly his theological student, but I am the merest and simplest of pleasures for this old medicine man- I am his company. I'm somebody he can talk to because he enjoys hearing about the world and he hasn't had much of a chance to see it.

Desire | Love |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There's not a crime but takes its proper change out still in crime if once rung on the counter of this world.

Praise | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.

Children | Day | Desire | God | Little | Memory | Talking | God |

Elizabeth Gilbert

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

Desire | Enough | Heart | Life | Life | Public | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Desire | Reason | Success |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In our age faith and charity are found, but they are found apart. We tolerate everybody, because we doubt everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something.

Desire | Faith |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

Cause | Desire | Means | Object | Suffering | Will | Happiness | Think |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

It is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men is not to be compared.

Desire | Life | Life |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

Comfort | Desire | God | Good | Posterity | God |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

Cause | Desire | Duty | God | Nothing | Prosperity | God |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.

Desire |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My mind was never to invade my neighbors.

Desire | Distrust | Fear |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Desire | Religion |