Great Throughts Treasury

"In the present ample space could step; is expected to be filled with more love and more joy of life."

"In the same way, there is no explanation of life. But there is a reason we are here, and you must be humble enough to accept that. Trust what I say; the life of each human being has a meaning, although he commits the error of spending the greater part of his time on earth seeking an answer, and meanwhile forgets to live."

"In the small central square of Ljubljana, the statue of the poet stares fixedly at something. If you follow his gaze, you will see, on the other side of the square, the face of a woman carved into the stone of one of the houses. That was where Julia had lived. Even after death, gaze for all eternity on his Impossible love."

"In the steppes, we always use the word to describe the blue sky, even if it is gray, because we know that it remains above the clouds blue."

"In the words of a Persian sage: love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured."

"In the words of the Mongolian creation myth: There came a wild dog who was blue and gray and whose destiny was imposed on him by the heavens. His mate was a roe deer. Thus begins another love story. The wild dog with his courage and strength, the doe with her gentleness, intuition, and elegance. Hunter and hunted meet and love each other. According to the laws of nature, one should destroy the other, but in love there is neither good nor evil, there is neither construction nor destruction, there is merely movement. And love changes the laws of nature."

"Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment... But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything."

"In this life even the simplest things are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand it."

"In this world, there is only one great truth: Regardless of who you are and what you do, if you really strive for something, it would be because it is the desire of the world total in conceiving and this is your purpose on this earth."

"In the world of my imagination, Esther was still my companion, and her love gave me the strength to go forward and explore all my frontiers. In the real world, she was pure obsession, sapping my energy, taking up all the available space, and obliging me to make an enormous effort just to continue with my life. How was it possible that, even after two years, I had still not managed to forget her? I could not bear having to think about it anymore, analyzing all the possibilities, and trying various ways out: deciding simply to accept the situation, writing a book, practicing yoga, doing some charity work, seeing friends, seducing women, going out to supper, to the cinema (always avoiding adaptations of books, of course, and seeking out films that had been specially written for the screen), to the theater, the ballet, to soccer games. The Zahir always won, though; it was always there, making me think, I wish she was here with me."

"Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It?s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that?s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don?t understand the language they speak there."

"Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly."

"In the world people are always waiting for the other."

"Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaneously."

"Insisted the Child: Can God be bad? answered Elijah: God is all-willed, capable of everything, and nothing refrain it, otherwise it means that there is a stronger and more powerful nation it prevents him from doing some things, and in this case, the best to worship and for this object, which does not override his power authority. Stopped Elijah few moments, even lets the boy to understand the meaning of his words. Then added - But that the Lord in his ability endless, chose only to do good, and if we reached the end of history, we will see that goodness often look like evil, but it keeps the good, and is part of the scenario that put God to mankind."

"Instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live."

"Instead of cursing the place where it is located tried to know the reason you fall first."

"Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us."

"Instead of envy, we must admire the large, rich and generous to those who know a Love that soul consumed with jealousy."

"Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave."

"Is delivered without thinking, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. Download of the other person fully responsible for their happiness, and all the blame for their possible unhappiness. Is always euphoric because something wonderful happened or depressed because something unexpected over destroying everything."

"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it?s all written there."

"It doesn't matter who's correct, what matters is who's right."

"It doesn't matter, he said to his sheep. I know other girls in other places. But in his heart he knew that it did matter. And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering."

"It gets like this, too, because most people in this world: They are looking for pain in a place that may find great joy in it, and so in the belief that they are not worthy of happiness"

"It echoed to myself: This broke the cup, because the broken symbolic gesture. Try to understand that I broke in with the most precious things myself than just a cup, and I'm happy that I did... They taught us that childhood passion belongs to impossible to track, and it should not keep the men from the priesthood, and that people do not miracles, and that no one walks through a travel but he knew where to lead it. Please smashed this cup, and liberated from all these preconceived ideas damned, our obsession with the interpretation m everything and refrain from anything that does not bring him closer to others."

"It has nothing to do with what you can see happening in my body; it's what's happening in my soul."

"It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world."

"Is it possible to fix love and make it stand still in time? Well, we can try, but that would turn our lives into a hell. I haven't been married for more than 20 years to the same person, because neither she nor I have remained the same. That's why our relationship is more alive than ever. I don't expect her to behave as she did when we first met. Nor does she want me to be the person I was when I found her. Love is beyond time, or, rather, love is both time and space, but all focused on one single constantly evolving point -- the Aleph."

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn?t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning."

"It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away."

"It is committed to crossing the desert cannot return to its wake, as long as we will not go back, we should not only care about the best way to move forward, and the rest depends on the will of God, including the risk"

"It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery."

"It is five minutes of agony, in exchange for an eternity in silence."

"It is he who, instead of killing their passions, get control them."

"It is for these eleven minutes cut from a full day (such as assuming that all men are having sex with their wives daily. This is not unreasonable, but contrary to fact) . Married men and committed themselves to bear the burdens of their dependents and bear their children crying and squirming in providing excuses when they returned to the house late."

"It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil."

"Intolerance is the only way to put an end to doubts that disturb the spirit of human beings always."

"It is like a marriage - said the gardener. - Along with the good things, a few little inconveniences always appear."

"It hurt when I lost each the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."

"It is impossible to understand sex as we see it nowadays - a mere response to a few physical stimuli. In reality, it is far more than that, and carries with it man's and humanity's entire cultural burden. 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."

"It is not light that want you to find. You just want to make sure that there is only darkness."

"It is not life that matters, but the journey."

"It is not necessary to move mountains in order to prove one's faith."

"It is not the life that matters, but the journey."

"It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love."

"It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes."

"It is not what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"It is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear."

"It is not evil in what goes into the mouth of the man; it is what comes out of it in."