Great Throughts Treasury

"Faults are more easily forgiven than virtues."

"Faith without reason leads to superstition: Reason without faith leads to cynicism."

"Fear not only anticipates misfortunes that never happen, it also precipitates some that would not otherwise have happened."

"Friction doesn't make the world go round, it just shows that it is."

"Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination."

"I sought my soul but my soul I could not see. I sought my God but my God eluded me. I sought my brother, and I found all three."

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

"If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking."

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"

"Happiness is the engine of progress. All progress starts with dissatisfaction."

"I cannot change yesterday I can only make the most of today, and look with hope towards tomorrow."

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."

"If God was looking for a hiding place he'd hide in Human Beings because that the last place they would think of looking for him."

"If people go on exploiting the world as if there was no tomorrow, there will be no tomorrow."

"If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day."

"If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times you will have to get used to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are in the wrong."

"If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?"

"If you lose your temper don't look for it."

"If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword."

"If you pursue happiness, it may elude you, but if you focus on your family, your friends, the needs of others, your work and doing the very best you can, happiness will find you."

"If you want a piece of the pie you must always try to sit close to the person with the knife."

"If you're not riding the wave of change--you'll find yourself beneath it."

"Jealously is much more about insecurity than love."

"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back."

"Keep your face to the sun and you cannot see the shadow."

"If you would keep young and happy, be good; live a high moral life; practice the principles of the brotherhood of man; send out good thoughts to all, and think evil of no man. This is in obedience to the great natural law; to live otherwise is to break this great Divine law. Other things being equal, it is the cleanest, purest minds that live long and are happy. The man who is growing and developing intellectually does not grow old like the man who has stopped advancing, but when ambition, aspirations and ideals halt, old age begins."

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

"In life what sometimes appears to be the end is really a new beginning."

"It is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life."

"It is human to err, but diabolical to persevere."

"It is a law of human life, as certain as gravity: to live fully, we must learn to use things and love people . . . not love things and use people."

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

"Life has no rehearsals, only performances."

"Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses."

"Live every day as if it were your last. Treat everybody else as if he were you."

"Life becomes tragic to him who has plenty to live on but little to live for."

"Learn as if you were to live for ever; live as if you were to die tomorrow."

"Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear."

"Kindness expiates a multitude of sins."

"Love is the sunshine of the soul. Without it we get hard and sour and we never grow into what we could be. Love sweetens the bitterness of experience and softens the core of selfishness that is inherent in human nature."

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything"

"Make the most of every failure; fall forward."

"Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."

"Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money."

"Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have."

"No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would."

"Never doubt that a group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

"Not every word requires an answer."

"Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference."

"People have little idea of what they are capable of until they try."