Great Throughts Treasury

"It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting."

"It is said that all people who are happy have God within them."

"It is your blessing, the path God has chosen for you here on Earth. Whenever a man does that which gives him enthusiasm, he is following his Legend. However, not everyone has the courage to face up to his own dreams."

"It is your own fear that you will not come back... and you will understand the love he cannot prevent the man to follow his personal legend."

"It isn?t the absolute truth about life and death, but the thing that helps us to live and confront the challenges of day-to-day life. It isn?t what we learn from books, which serves only to fuel futile arguments about what happened or will happen; it is the knowledge that lives in the hearts of men and women of good will."

"It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on."

"It is said that each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life. So please embrace me now."

"It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you."

"It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us."

"It is true, life is very generous to people who want to pursue their destiny."

"It is useless to talk about love, because love him his own voice."

"It matters not how we were brought up. What determines our way of acting is the manner in which we administrate our will. A man is the sum of all his wishes, which determine his way of living and dying."

"It may be broke in my heart, but it will recover and be able to see Porter life again, I have already happened and will happen again, I'm sure. When you leave one of them, it is because somebody else is about to reach, I will find love again."

"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of far more than you imagined."

"It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less."

"It was a mistake that set the world in motion. Never be afraid of making a mistake."

"It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us."

"It should be shown for evil and plays his role, so that he could do good, in the end, to win."

"It was Ahab knows human nature right to know. Not wanting to submit to laws that oblige everyone, including society imposes, but fear of punishment. Each of us carries a gallows in the depths."

"It was her company he desired. He wanted to put his arms around her and to sit in silence, staring into the fire, drinking wine, smoking the occasional cigarette; that would be enough. Life was made up of simple things; he was weary of all the years he had spent searching for something, though quite what he didn't know."

"It was going to be impossible to escape her own trap, she would lose this man without ever really having him."

"It is said that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie."

"It was best to put an end to everything now, while she was still brave and healthy enough to die."

"It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you."

"It was impossible; trying to find a meaning in everything meant he had to remain alert and tense."

"It was not necessary to know your own demons in order to find God."

"It was something that was considered to get it is stable and secure knows in the end he could not get anything."

"It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge."

"It was something that he could not last much longer because we lived in a time when slavery is the only way to find happiness. Free will requires an assumption of responsibility and an immense exhausting trial, and brings anguish and suffering."

"It was the language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired."

"It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at the moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before being committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other ,and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning. Maktub, thought the boy."

"It was the new moon that Veronika loved best because there was still room for it to grow, to expand, to fill the whole of its surface with light before its inevitable decline."

"It?s [your Personal Legend] what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their Personal Legend."

"It was then as he discovered that could elude death him that the fear of death returned."

"It?s best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life."

"It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself."

"It?s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your Personal Legend. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it?s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It?s your mission on earth."

"It?s not routine that?s the problem. I?m simply not happy."

"It?s nice to dream that we will have plenty of time in the future to do our travelling and that, one day, we will travel. It cheers us up because we know that we are capable of doing more than we do. Dreaming carries no risks. The dangerous thing is trying to transform your dreams into reality."

"It?s not what enters men?s mouths that?s evil, said the alchemist. It?s what comes out of their mouths that is."

"It?s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them."

"It?s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what?s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That?s the world?s greatest lie."

"It?s what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is."

"It?s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."

"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's you mission on earth."

"Item one: the law of the will. We just talked about this: one should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm. If we brush this aside, if we put off the moment to live that which we dream of, we lose the energy necessary for any important transformation in our lives. Someone once put this most succinctly: I don?t know the secret of success - but the secret of failure is to always try to follow the will of others."

"It was all the months and days leading up to this week's look at the part of my memory of another life, from the era never wanted to refer to it, because BREATHING untouched love."

"It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn."

"It?s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. I cannot be as good as I would like to be. Nor as bad as I think I need to be. I think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded."

"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory ? visit your soul; don?t visit your past."