Great Throughts Treasury

"Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love."

"Power coerces, knowledge persuades, love converts."

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes."

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

"Religion is a journey, not a destination."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most finest things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together."

"Rules for Being Human: You will learn lessons. There are no mistakes – only lessons. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is the one way the universe gets your attention.) You’ll know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change."

"Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul. Take time to think, it is the source of power. Take time to play, it is the source of perpetual youth. Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom. Take time to pray, it is the greatest power on earth. Take time to love and be loved, it is a God-given privilege. Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness. Take time to give, it is too short a day to be selfish. Take time to work, it is the price of success."

"Success is a journey, not a destination."

"Take time to laugh, it is the music of the soul."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"Take time to be happy. Time is not a fast lane between cradle and grave. It is a place to park out of the sun."

"Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness."

"The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious."

"The essence of superior leadership is the inspired application of principle to circumstance."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"The future belongs to those who dare."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"The greatest thing to leave children is the love they have in them not the inheritance you might leave them."

"The more doctors, the more disease; the more lawyers, the more crime; the more philosophers, the more folly; the more priests, the more sin."

"The harder you work . . . the luckier you get."

"The measure of love is compassion; the measure of compassion is kindness."

"The happiness of your life is in direct proportion to the character of your thoughts."

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"The only way to live each minute as an unrepeated miracle, which is exactly what it is – a miracle, and unrepeatable."

"The past is a prison for those who live in it."

"The only winnable nuclear war is the one we prevent."

"The past should be a springboard not a hammock."

"The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything really badly that reason says you have little or no chance of getting."

"The rich who help the poor make their lives richer."

"The worst prison would be a closed heart."

"There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them."

"The soul of man is the lamp of God."

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

"There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, those who wonder what happened."

"There is a past which is gone for ever; but there is a future which is still our own work."

"There can be change without progress, but not progress without change."

"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life--happiness, freedom, and peace of mind--are always attained by giving them to someone else."

"There is no limit to what people can do, or where they can go, if they don't mind who gets the credit."

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come."

"True commitment begins when we reach the point of not knowing how we can possibly go on, and decide to do it anyway."

"Those people who think life is a problem haven't got enough to worry about."

"Today. Mend a quarrel. Search out a friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed. Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more. Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Still speak it again. Speak it still once again."

"Unless the effectiveness of our learning is greater than the nature of change is unlikely to be equated with progress."

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow."

"Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity."

"Visionary sights unseen see future shapes never made from thoughts unthought which imagine the unimaginable in new colour vision of everything out there but not as we know it."

"We are a journey that has forgotten its destination."