Great Throughts Treasury

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Elizabeth Lesser

I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an outsider in childhood, to have been given the gift of not belonging.

Earth | Good | Heart | Reverence | Talking | Woman | Old |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, tired of all the playing, sleep with smile the sweeter for that you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand golden lights serenely-- one cheek, pushed out by the hand, folds the dimple inly.

Earth | Heaven | Joy |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.

Earth | Glory | God | Heaven | Sound | God |

Elizabeth Lesser

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Beginning | Body | Earth | Heart | Mind | Pain | Solitude | Spirit | Spirituality | Time |

Elizabeth Gilbert

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

Balance | Earth | Will | World |

Elizabeth Lesser

One of the problems of contemporary culture is that life moves at such a quick pace, we usually don't give ourselves time to feel and listen deeply. You may have to take deliberate action to nurture the soul. If you want to increase your soul's bank account, you may have to seek out the unfamiliar and do things that at first could feel uncomfortable. Give yourself time as you experiment. How will you know if you're on the right track? I like Rumi's counsel: 'When you do something from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.'

Age | Better | Cause | Earth | Enlightenment | Fame | Famous | Fortune | Good | Illusion | Kill | Labor | Light | Man | Mind | Money | People | Present | Problems | Shame | Terrorism | Work | Worry | Instruction | Understand |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Love | Men | Passion |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Love | Men | Passion | Quiet | Old |

Elizabeth Gilbert

You must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

Earth | World |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Eternity stands always fronting God; a stern colossal image, with blind eyes, and grand dim lips, that murmur evermore, "God - God - God!"

Disdain | Doubt | Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Little |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.

Earth | Smile | Worth |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Earth | Humanity | Time | Will |

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 Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Earth |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Conscience | Earth | Good | Happy | Labor | Laughter | Man | People | Wealth | Will | Worry |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Earth | Wrong |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy to tell the toiler how best he can carry his pack but no one can rate a burden's weight until it has been on his back.

Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Smile | Will | Worth |

Elizabeth Gould Davis

Asexual reproduction by females, parthenogenesis, is not only possible but it still occurs here and there in the modern world, perhaps as an atavistic survival of the once only means of reproduction in an all-female world.

Earth | Man | Power | Religion | System | Will | Woman | Wonder | World | Old |

Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

Life | Life | Little | Passion | Pity | Time | Tragedy | Youth | Youth |

Emil M. Cioran

A relief bordering on orgasm at the notion that one will never again embrace a cause, any cause.

Earth |