Great Throughts Treasury

"Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference."

"Don't waste your time with expectations. People only hear what they want to hear."

"Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be considered too old."

"Dr. Igor paused, but he knew that Mari was following his reasoning. So, let?s turn to your illness: Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective way of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone in your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not in the other? No. If someone were to ask, the response they?d get would probably be: ?You?re crazy.? If they persisted, people would try to come up with a reason, but they?d soon change the subject, because there isn?t a reason apart from the one I?ve just given you. So to go back to your question. What was it again? Am I cured? No. You?re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness. Is wanting to be different a serious illness? It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It?s a distortion of nature, it goes against God?s laws, for in all the world?s woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it?s insane to be different, and that?s why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?"

"Dreamers cannot tame never."

"During sex, it is very difficult to deceive the other person because that is when each person shows who they really are."

"During this time in spiritual exile, I learned many important things: that we only accept a truth after we have first wholeheartedly rejected it; that we mustn't run away from our own destiny; and that the hand of God is firm, but infinitely generous."

"Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality."

"Dreams of dead continues to rot in us, and spoil the whole Jonah."

"Dreamers can't be tamed."

"Dreams are the language of God."

"Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams."

"Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people-preferably our parents, our spouses or our children-for our failure to realize our dreams."

"Each man kills the thing he loves, by all let this be heard. Some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword."

"Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

"Each morning brings a hidden blessing; a blessing which is unique to that day, and which cannot be kept or re-used. If we do not use this miracle today, it will be lost."

"Each of us carries within something unknown. But, when it floats to the surface, to be able to miracles."

"Each person in the ground treasure that awaits him... hearts rarely talk about, because people do not want to find these treasures, do not talk about, but for young children, and then let the life of the responsibility to lead everyone towards of, unfortunately, few people follow the path who plan their life, which is the matter of access to the personal myth and happiness. The bulk of people are seen as a threat to the world, and for this reason the world is in fact something is threatened, then initiate hearts to talk in a low voice more and more."

"Each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells... whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves a feeling disappointed, saying: The book is so much better than the film."

"Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life."

"Each thing is a ritual. Carefully developed a ritual that everyone is trying to perform as accurately as possible, because he's afraid that if any part of the field, everything goes wrong. Its name is a routine ritual."

"Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others."

"Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration."

"Each time we face a new experience, we bring with us all past experiences - both good and bad - as well as those concepts which civilization has made into rules."

"Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant."

"Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them."

"Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself."

"Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them."

"Elegance is the correct posture if the writing is to be perfect. It?s the same with life: when all superfluous things have been discarded, we discover simplicity and concentration. The simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be, even though, at first, it may seem uncomfortable."

"Elijah said: We used our lives and we no longer read the words of the Lord. Asked the boy: Where do you write these words? Said Elijah in the world around us. Just be sensitive to what is happening in your life, and you will discover a place in every moment of the day, he hides his words and his will. Vasa to do what you requested, this alone is the motivation behind and you are in the world. Boy said, if discovered, will save it on clay tablets. Said Elijah to do. But first store it in your heart, there will not be burned or destroyed, and will carry it with you wherever you go."

"Enjoy the questions and forget the answers."

"Even if I were not able to find my sword, the pilgrimage along the Road to Santiago was going to help me to find myself."

"Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death."

"Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind."

"Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days."

"Even if they allowed her to practice what she likes her mad, you will not know where to start. So they did not act insanely days."

"Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price."

"Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive."

"Even if you do not find the answer, it is sufficient that there is someone else knows that answer, and enough to find this person, and fall asleep in his arms like a baby, is enough to know that this person is the strongest of you, and will assume protect you from all the dangers and evils."

"Even the souls, like the rivers and the plants, they needed a different kind of rain: hope, faith, reason to live. When that did not happen, everything in that soul died, even if the body continued to live."

"Even If you're doing the same thing over and over, you need to discover something new, fantastic and unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before."

"Even stopped clocks are right twice a day."

"Even you, the person asking the question. ?I?m useless? is the answer you give yourself. Soon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible. Don?t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."

"Even though I complain sometimes it's because I'm the heart of a person. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands. Because, when these things happen, we suffer terribly."

"Ever since he was a child, he wanted to know the world, and this was much more important to him than knowing god and learning about man?s sins."

"Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes."

"Every atom of her body was touching the air, and the air was generous; it brought with it, from afar, secrets and perfumes to clothe her from head to toe."

"Every battle in life teach us something, even the battles that we lose. When mature, you will discover that you defended lies, deceived yourself, and I suffered for nonsense. If you're a good fighter will not blame yourself for this, but you will not allow the repetition of mistakes."

"Every day God gives us - with the sun - the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. And every day we try to pretend bud it does not exist at all, if today all like yesterday and indistinguishable from tomorrow."

"Every day as it comes, and tomorrow is another day."