Great Throughts Treasury

"The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage."

"Anxiety is the great modern plague."

"Men err when they think they can be in human exploiters in their business life and loving fathers and husbands at home."

"Whatever you do in life, do with love! We have no alternative save to act from motives of hate - yet how doleful to make this our choice! For hate is the destroyer of life, where love is its guardian. Hate blinds our vision and warps our talents; but love releases our energies for the creative action that sustains mankind. while all human behavior springs from a mixture of both these great forces of nature, it is within our power to determine which shall prevail as we journey through life... We must tip the balance ever in favor of love if we wish to hurdle the obstacles before us on the road to normal happiness and success."

"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."

"All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny."

"If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger."

"It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly."

"Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere."

"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life."

"No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence."

"Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it."

"Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor."

"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul."

"Practice easing your way along...Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor."

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."

"To be happy, drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time.""

"You can overcome all, if you think you can. Keep your calmness and a sense of humor."

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane."