Great Throughts Treasury

"Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world? It is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness and has a heart always ready to praise God for it. Could you therefore work miracles, you could not do more for yourself than by this thankful spirit, for it turns all that it touches into happiness." - William Law

"You are to honor, improve, and perfect the spirit that is within you: you are to prepare it for the kingdom of heaven, to nourish it with the love of God and of virtue, to adorn it with good works, and to make it as holy and heavenly as you can." - William Law

"You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough." - William Law

"You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it." - William Law

"A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on." - William (Morley Punshon) McFee

"Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps." - William McKinley

"That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." - William McKinley

"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes." - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

"What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed. - Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that I think a short while ago it was trying to work out how to... - Yes? - Make me some tea. - That's right guys, - the computer sang out suddenly, - just coping with that problem right now, and wow, it's a biggy. Be with you in a while. It lapsed back into a silence that was only matched for sheer intensity by the silence of the three people staring at Arthur Dent." - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

"Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?" - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

"WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it." - Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams

"I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable versus broadcast TV." - Drew Curtis

"I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!" - William Shakespeare

"Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap." - William Shakespeare

"O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue" - William Shakespeare

"O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away they brains ! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!" - William Shakespeare

"O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!" - William Shakespeare

"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." - William Shakespeare

"On, on, you noble English, whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof, fathers that like so many Alexanders have in these parts from morn till even fought and sheathed their swords for lack of argument dishonor not your mothers; now attest that those whom you called fathers did beget you!" - William Shakespeare

"ORLANDO: I take thee, Rosalind, for wife. ROSALIND: I might ask you for your commission; but,— I do take thee, Orlando, for my husband: — there's a girl goes before the priest; and, certainly, a woman's thought runs before her actions. ORLANDO: So do all thoughts; they are winged. ROSALIND: Now tell me how long you would have her, after you have possessed her. ORLANDO: For ever and a day. ROSALIND: Say "a day," without the "ever." No, no, ORLANDO: men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives." - William Shakespeare

"POLONIUS:My honored lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you. HAMLET: You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal — except my life — except my life — except my life." - William Shakespeare

"Princes have but their titles for their glories, an outward honor for an inward toil; and, for unfelt imaginations, they often feel a world of restless cares." - William Shakespeare

"QUINCE: Marry, our play is "The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe." BOTTOM: A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a merry." - William Shakespeare

"He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"There is a good deal to live for, but a man has to go through hell really to find it out." - Edwin Arlington Robinson

"We have overdeveloped the individualism that arose in a pioneer country. We are destined to become more co-operative, more collectivistic, and to find in this direction still greater opportunity for the individual, not so much restricted and defeated by competition but enlarged and enhanced by the support of a common will. It may be that the problem of material goods--of the necessary but yet external goods of food, clothing, shelter, and money-is about to be solved through new discoveries and developments, with the energies of men left freer than they have ever been to cultivate on higher levels the sharable goods of life, such as love and wisdom. These values grow with use and multiply by being freely shared." - Edward Scribner Ames

"Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise." - Edwin Way Teale

"Growth in consciousness doesn't depend on the will of the intellect or its possibilities but on the intensity of the inner urge." - Egyptian Proverbs

"Man, know thyself ... and thou shalt know the gods." - Egyptian Proverbs

"The hand in water isn’t like the hand in fire." - Egyptian Proverbs

"Those who had some shame are dead." - Egyptian Proverbs

"You will free yourself when you learn to be neutral and follow the instructions of your heart without letting things perturb you. This is the way of Maat." - Egyptian Proverbs

"Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt." - Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

"He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own." - Elias L. Magoon

"Another rule that the pursuit of love. No one seeks behind only love and simmer During his trip, what The trip begins search for love even begin to change from home and abroad" - Elif Safak

"Human beings tend to discredit the things he cannot understand for some reason." - Elif Safak

"Patience is not to clench your teeth and do nothing. It means to be prescient enough to trust the end result of the process. What is patience? It means looking at the thorns and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so myopic as to see the result. Whoever loves God remains patient, because he knows that it takes time incomplete moon to be full." - Elif Safak

"Perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind." - Elif Safak

"Sometimes ... yaralanıveririz so suddenly. But every wound will heal itself. Eventually heals, top off. Stored in the eyes. Does not want to be seen because there is no wound. As long as they advocate the wound pupils. Because if pupils are injured, you cannot look the world in the same way ever again. You start to see the bad side of everything you look at. Contaminants that have remained hidden even run away from his eyes. Did not see things that other people feel the same anymore and you do not love them anymore. Uncomfortable. They cannot look you in the same way again. This is close to you, so no one wants to see. Picture the same image, in fact, changing your eyes. If you walk out the picture, everything remains as before, not everyone is comfortable. Personally, I think it is best to go in such situations. Top go to the top. Out of spite." - Elif Safak

"The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time." - Elif Safak

"Try not to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not be afraid that your life is turned upside down. How do you know that what you're used to is better than the things that will come?" - Elif Safak

"Whatever you do Shams, made ​​it for my perfection. Here's what you do not understand the people in the city. He deliberately blew the flames of intrigues, affected patients questions uttered words to ordinary ears sounded like blasphemy, stunned and challenged people, even those who loved him. Threw my books in the water to make me force you to forget what I know. Although everyone had heard what attacks to make sheikhs and scribes, few knew how capable he was tafsira30. Had deep knowledge of alchemy, astrology, astronomy, theology, philosophy and logic, but had knowledge hidden from ignorant eyes. Was fakih31 and acted like fakr32. opened our home to a prostitute and forced us to eat at the same table with her. Send me to the pub to encourage me to talk to drunks. Once made ​​me go and beg at the mosque, where I preached to put in place a Nish, a leper. Tore me from my first pilgrimage and then and nobles to get touch with ordinary people. Thanks to him I met people who otherwise would not have met. Because of the belief that you need to destroy all the idols standing between man and God, including fame, wealth, social status and even religion Shams destroy everything that kept me connected to life as we know it. Have you seen any mental limitations, prejudices and taboos, grabbed the bull by the horns and stood against it. Because it passed inspection and testing different states and stages, after each of which looked into the eyes of his most loyal followers more more deranged. Before I had a bunch of pilgrims, now I got rid of the need to have an audience. Blow after blow Shams managed to ruin my good name. Because of him, I learned how much insanity and by the time I knew the taste of loneliness, of helplessness, intrigues, privacy and ultimately heartbreak. Seest thou gain, run! Poison drink and my personal living water! certainty quit scary places go! strikeout good your name, get disgraced and shameless! Ultimately, we are all put to the test. Every day, every minute God asks us: Remember how we made ​​a covenant before being sent to this world? Do you understand his role in this reveal my riches? Usually we are not ready to answer these questions. they frighten us too much. Yet God velikotarpeliv. He asked again and again. - Elif Shafak , The Forty Rules of Love" - Elif Safak

"When you see a hand from afar, Kimya, can you do that there is only one school. But you dive into the water, you realize that there is more than a river. The river is hidden inside various currents and they all run in harmony, yet are completely separate from one another." - Elif Safak

"My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God." - Albert Einstein

"See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!" - William Shakespeare

"She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd that heaven had made her such a man: She thank'd me, and bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story and that would woo her." - William Shakespeare

"Shine comforts from the east, That I may back to Athens by daylight From these that my poor company detest; And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company." - William Shakespeare

"So, of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom." - William Shakespeare

"Such it is as are those dulcet sounds in break of day that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear and summon him to marriage." - William Shakespeare