Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.

Eternal | Evolution | God | History | Humanity | Ideas | Individual | Longing | Means | Need | Nothing | Order | Peace | Providence | Right | Sacred | Search | Spirit | Story | Thinking | Thought | Will | Wonder | God | Think | Thought |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Nosegays! leave them for the waking, throw them earthward where they grew dim are such, beside the breaking amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

Love | Means |

Elizabeth Gilbert

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

Good | Means |

Elizabeth Gilbert

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Enjoyment | Means | Rhetoric |

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 Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Action | Means | Men | Rest | Woman |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour when I am so near my death.

Care | Love | Means | Passion |

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Ideas | Ignorance | World |

Ellen Goodman

How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Absolute | Attainment | Labor | Means | Nature | Sacrifice | Woman | Worth |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Means | Survival |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Children | Means | Success | Training | Child |

Emil M. Cioran

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Ignorance |

Emil M. Cioran

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Beginning | Means | Solitude |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man.

Abundance | Body | Conversation | Eternal | Experience | Life | Life | Means | Meditation | Money | Need | People | Reading | Spirit | Time | World | Think | Understand |

Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch

This instinct for totality, the counterpart of the feeling, gnawing and rankling, of dissatisfaction, is the germ of all religion. But man answers the craving need of a totality and a prospect into the future according to his historical conditions. Therefore all religions are genuine rings. None of them is a counterfeit, and none of them owns exclusively the truth and the whole truth.

Intention | Man | Means | Music | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Value |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Withdrawal from evil is effected by the Lord in a thousand most secret ways.

Body | Death | Individual | Meaning | Means | Nature | People | Spirit | Thought | World | Thought |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

The Lord’s church is spread over the whole globe, and so is universal. All who live a good life according to their own religious belief are members of it. Heaven is of such a nature that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Love | Means | People | Present |

Emile Zola

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Accuracy | Dignity | Discipline | Enough | Justice | Land | Love | Means | Need | Obedience | Piety | Position | Respect | Tomorrow | Will | Respect |

Emil M. Cioran

There was a time when time did not yet exist... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

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