Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

Ability | Lord | Words |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I told him: Maybe you could come to visit me in America someday, Ketut. Navia and shook his head cheerfully resigned to capacity: I cannot Liz, I do not have enough teeth to travel by plane

Absolution | Children | Clemency | Pain | People | Thought | Words | Friends | Thought |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Everyone makes their own path, and I must make mine. The Bhagavad Gita - and ancient Indian Yogic text - says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life perfectly. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. It is mine.

Magic | Words |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Oh Krishna's mind concern, rough, strong and stubborn, and subjected to at least the difficulty of for subjecting the wind

Absolution | Business | Children | Clemency | Pain | People | Right | Thought | Words | Business | Friends | Thought |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

Discipline | Good | Learning | Peace | Solitude | Speech | Words | World |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Day | Future | Heart | Love | Lying | Words |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As the moths around a taper, as the bees around a rose, as the gnats around a vapour, so the spirits group and close round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

Heart | Light | Love | Silence | Speech | Teach | Words |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And there my little doves did sit with feathers softly brown and glittering eyes that showed their right to general Nature's deep delight.

Melancholy | Words |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Emotions | Experience | Life | Life | Pain | Power | Talking | Words |

Elizabeth Lesser

Are you becoming more and more aware of the interconnection of all beings, creatures and elements? Do you hold as your own Jesus' words: 'And whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, you do to me'? Are you getting tired of the way our society celebrates the false ego's selfish and insatiable drive to acquire and use more and more? And does that make you want to be an agent of healing? A declaration of life's interdependence is a sign of spiritual progress.

Arrogance | Fear | Fighting | Health | Life | Life | Listening | Nature | Practice | Soul | Surrender | Uncertainty | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.

Body | Circumstances | Energy | Fate | Life | Life | Money | Regard | Will | Words | Fate |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but pain is not the fruit of pain.

Children | Life | Life | Sense | Words |

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Men never fail to dwell on maternity as a disqualification for the possession of many civil and political rights. Suggest the idea of women having a voice in making laws and administering the Government in the halls of legislation, in Congress, or the British Parliament, and men will declaim at once on the disabilities of maternity in a sneering contemptuous way, as if the office of motherhood was undignified and did not comport with the highest public offices in church and state. It is vain that we point them to Queen Victoria, who has carefully reared a large family, while considering and signing...

Bible | Despair | Enough | Fear | Punishment | Bible | Understand |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.

Body | Change | Error | Fear | Hell | Hope | Love | Sin |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My mind was never to invade my neighbors.

Desire | Distrust | Fear |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

You will be surprised to find how much that has seemed hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or an amusing side.

Words |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

But nothing that can be said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments. Grief is the price we pay for love.

Words |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Fear | Husband |

Dorothy Parker

I cannot be just for books that deal with the woman as woman ... My idea is that everyone, both men and women, we sayons, we must be regarded as human beings.

Change | Words |

Dorothy Parker

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

Language | Words |