Great Throughts Treasury

"If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated." - Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

"Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate." - Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

"It is possible, I think, to say that... agriculture formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill." - Wendell Berry

"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty." - Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL

"The hypocritical and the greedy are struck down; the Messenger of Death punishes them with his club. O camel-like mind, you are my breath of life; rid yourself of the pollution of hypocrisy and doubt." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

"Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge." - Václav Havel

"Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now." - Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests." - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder

"We learn how to close the gap between what we are and what we could become. But what if we are yet to identify what we could become? Frankl noted that the modern person has almost too much freedom to deal with. We no longer live through instinct, but tradition is no guide either. This is the existential vacuum, in which the frustrated will to meaning is compensated for in the urge for money, sex, entertainment, even violence. We are not open to the various sources of meaning, which according to Frankl are: 1 Creating a work or doing a deed. 2 Experiencing something or encountering someone (love). 3. The attitude we take to unavoidable suffering." - Tom Butler-Bowdon

"Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

"My love runs by like a day in June, and he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon in the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- and I wish somebody'd shoot him." - Dorothy Parker

"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"You know what makes a good loser? Practice." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"Character, at the same time, is formed primarily by a man's work. And work, properly conducted in conditions of human dignity and freedom, blesses those who do it equally their products." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"And now for all of us to do our duty! The clarion call is ringing in our ears and we cannot falter without being convicted of treason to ourselves and to our great cause. Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth. Yes, in good time we are going to sweep into power in this nation and throughout the world. We are going to destroy all enslaving and degrading capitalist institutions and re-create them as free and humanizing institutions. The world is daily changing before our eyes. The sun of capitalism is setting; the sun of socialism is rising. It is our duty to build the new nation and the free republic." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself to enrich an idle exploiter. You need to know that you have a mind to improve, a soul to develop, and a manhood to sustain." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"In a health-care situation, you see humanity at its most basic, and you realize there are no simple yes-or-no, right-or-wrong answers." - Faye Wattleton

"The future and strength of the race is for women to be able to have kids when they want them and to love and provide them with the tools they'll need to get through a hostile world. The image of the black woman bearing child upon child against her will is the real threat to the race." - Faye Wattleton