Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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William Lyon Phelps

One of the chief reasons for success in life is the ability to maintain a daily interest in one's work, to have a chronic enthusiasm, to regard each day as important.

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Ability | Character | Day | Enthusiasm | Important | Life | Life | Regard | Success | Work |

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Wilhelm Reich

Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than partyline line or public opinion; when the mood of Beethoven or Bach will be the mood of your total existence; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians.

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Aliveness | Better | Character | Children | Existence | Freedom | Good | Life | Life | Love | Money | Opinion | Public | Security | Will |

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Leo Rosten, fully Leo Calvin Rosten, pen name Leonard Q. Ross

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

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Character | Happy | Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose |

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Publius Syrus

Suspicion breeds rivals for herself... The suspicious man condemns the good faith of all... Suspicion is an unspoken wrong to tested worth.

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Character | Faith | Good | Man | Suspicion | Worth | Wrong |

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

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Character | Life | Life | Man | Order | Right | Risk |

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours have been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

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Character | Grace | Life | Life | Men | People | Trouble |

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Jules Renard, aka Pierre-Jules Renard

If I were to begin life again, I should want it just as it was; only I would open my eyes a little more.

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Character | Life | Life | Little | Wisdom |

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George Ripley

There are hosts of men, of the profoundest thought, who find nothing in the disclosures of science to shake their faith in the eternal virtues of reason and religion.

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Character | Eternal | Faith | Men | Nothing | Reason | Religion | Science | Thought |

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Arthur Rubenstein

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

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Character | Life | Life | Love | Will |

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Publius Syrus

How long is life to the wretched, how short for the happy!

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Character | Life | Life |

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Ensworth Reisner

The strong man does not always ride the wave of success. The strong man is the one who can turn the misfortune of life into character; the one who is committed to the essential and not the superficial. He faces and overcomes inner challenges and depends not on outer acclaim.

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Character | Life | Life | Man | Misfortune | Success | Misfortune |

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A. J. S. NULL

Humanity goes on and on almost in despair, hoping some time to find rest and peace and fullness of life in the undefined future, when, in fact, all these and more are here now if we would (could?) only reach out our hand and take them.

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Character | Despair | Future | Humanity | Life | Life | Peace | Rest | Time |

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Kenneth Ring

The meaning of life has something to do with realizing that our essence is perfect love, then going on to live our lives upon that truth, experiencing each day as a miracle and every act as sacred.

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Character | Day | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Sacred | Truth |

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