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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Douglas William Jerrold

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Change | Man | Wife |

Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

Change | Past | Ugly |

William Shakespeare

Open as day for melting charity.

Change | Love | Perfection |

William Shakespeare

Old father antic the law.

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

We are young and we are friends of time.

Change | Time | Will |

Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki

The world know it not; but you, Autumn, I confess it: your wind at night-fall stabs deep into my heart.

Beauty | Change | Men | Precept | Style | Tradition | Trifles | Will | Beauty |

Edwin Percy Whipple

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.

Change | Mind | Study | Thought | Thought |

Edward Scribner Ames

It may be said that the supreme revelation is to be found in Jesus Christ and that all the rest of the Bible leads up to him. Yet there are two ways of accepting the words and example of Jesus. One is to take what he says as true because he says it, and another is to believe it because it stands the test of reflection and experience. When his way of life has been confirmed by the demands of intelligence and of practical life, it has gained the deepest security and made its strongest claims upon our loyalty.

Association | Change | Divinity | Ideas | Life | Life | Nature | People | Psychology | Sense | Sin | Strength | Association |

Egyptian Proverbs

A loss soon is better than a victory much later.

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Eileen Garrett

You will not mind if I say that where there is unhappiness in a house and there is an impression of someone [i.e. a departed spirit] coming back, it is because you make for that spirit a Garden of Memory in which it can live and revive its sufferings. Unless you are, consciously or unconsciously, in a state of mind in which this impression can vivify itself, you will not be troubled. Haven't you discovered that these things only happen to you when you are in a bad emotional state, physically or mentally disturbed? Don't you realize that you yourself vivify this memory?

Change | Consciousness | Control | Harmony | Life | Life | Means | Nature | Peace | Present | Regard | Time | Work |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

If god himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him.

Change | Hope | Man |

Elif Safak

The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.

Change | Truth | Understand |

Elif Safak

If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Change | Little | Love | Man | Mistake | Think |

Elif Safak

No matter who, what part of the world we live, live, until a sense of a lack of deep down we are moving. It's a basic thing we are afraid of not getting lost it in the back. Bilenimizde what is missing very little indeed.

Change | Childhood | Life | Life | Religion | Sense | Time | Truth | Understanding | Woman | World |

Elif Safak

First you meet someone, someone who is quite different from the people around. It looks at everything in a different light and makes you change to shift its angle of vision, to see it all again - inside and out. You think you can stand at a safe distance from it. You think you will ever find your way in this beautiful storm when suddenly you realize that you pushed offshore and have no power over anything. I cannot say exactly when I was captivated by your words. All I know is that our correspondence makes me another. From the outset. You'll probably regret that I said it. But because all my life I regretted things and I did not do, I see nothing wrong with that at least do something to regret. since met along the novel and our conversation, I think about you constantly. Read any of your emails, I feel something inside me stand on a whirlwind and am aware that for some time I have not tasted such contentment and excitement. all day I do not go out of head. Arguing with you in mind and I wonder how I would welcome any new stimulus in my life. If you go to a nice restaurant, I want you to be with me. Did you see anything interesting is sad that he can show you. The day before my younger daughter asked if I was doing something with her ​​hair. My hair is the same as before: but it is true that I look different because I feel different.

Change | Love |

Elif Safak

Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

Change | Contentment | Daughter | Day | Life | Life | Light | Looks | Mind | Nothing | People | Power | Regret | Safe | Time | Will | Wonder | Wrong | Think |

Elif Safak

Finding Love changes us. Who is out to find Love, matures along the way. The moment to go looking for love, you're going to change from the inside out.

Change | Destiny | Fate | Ignorance | Life | Life | Music | Play | Fate |

Elif Safak

One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another's works. That, sadly, is not always the case. Writers Rarely say anything positive About each Other.

Acceptance | Change | Mistake | Past | People | Submission |

Elif Safak

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

Change | Love | Rule | Search |

William Shakespeare

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

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