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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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.

Life | Life | Time |

Washington Irving

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Battle | Heart | Man | Skill |

Washington Irving

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Light | Happiness |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find.

Better | Compassion | Energy | Good | People |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

Commitment | Life | Life | Money | Purpose | Purpose | Will |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

Life | Life |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

If you want to know what your thoughts were like yesterday, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will be like tomorrow, look at your thoughts today.

Purpose | Purpose | Service | Will |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.

Love | Need |

Washington Irving

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is - what a ministering angel she is, until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Chance | Genius | Glory | Struggle | Will |

Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray

Whoever thinks as, from, or on behalf of, an entity which he believes himself to be, the more so if he tries to work on himself, by, with, or for such an entity - which is only a concept in mind - has not yet begun to understand what it is all about.

Absence | Self |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Stop your own blame trip as of right now.

Right | Waiting |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

When you raise children to believe that they have no choices in life, you encourage them to stay dependent on you well into their adult years.

Love | Nothing |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Intelligence |

Wei Jingsheng or Jing-sheng

We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any savior. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernization.

Rights |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Ability | Circumstances | Fulfillment | Greatness |

Wayne Muller

We don't have the wisdom required to hear what is truly necessary to hear right action, right understanding, right livelihood. We inadvertently break things even as we try to fix them. Our busy-ness becomes a kind of violence because it destroys the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. On one level, suffering comes because we inadvertently bring harm to the world that we're trying to help whether we're raising money to pay the bills, serving the homeless, or feeding the hungry. Having been in non-profit worlds for twenty-five years, I can say that the faster we go, the more we unintentionally mishandle the ones we love. They become an object of our ambition rather than the subject of our heart's attention, which requires a certain amount of time and company as well as money.

Compassion | Freedom | Need |

Wendell Berry

Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided.

Giving | Heart | Law | Need | Public | Soul | Vows | Think |

Welsh Proverbs

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

Better | Good |

Wendell Berry

Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

Rest | Reward |

Wendell Berry

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Adultery | Age | Disease | Giving | Man | Marriage | Public | Responsibility | Speech | Woman |