Great Throughts Treasury

"It's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be."

"It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life."

"It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God."

"It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes and failures are entirely your own responsibility."

"It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for."

"It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibility that it might all come to nothing."

"It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. Because life wants to achieve your destiny."

"It's enough just to love him, to be with him in my thoughts and to color this lovely city with his steps, his words, his love. When I leave this country, it will have a face and a name and the memory of a fireplace. Everything else I experienced here, all the difficulties I had to overcome, will be as nothing compared to that memory."

"It's got to be careful, lessons always come when you are ready, and if you pay attention to the signs, you'll always find what you need for the next step."

"It's doubt that drives a man onward."

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

"It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"It's risky, falling in love. I know that, I answered. I've been in love before. It's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love. What a horrible way to put it, he said."

"It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary."

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

"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."

"It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny."

"It's the thought of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. All things happen for a reason."

"It's up to you, O God, in order to come back at this moment. And I wish I could swim in your name, and I am in full and my will is not a coward because I did not know how to choose the Derby."

"It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend."

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

"It's very important to give up some things, including the freedom to talk to them without restrictions. People need to understand that no one is playing with leaves parameter. We barked at times and sometimes we lose. Do not expect to recover anything, do not expect gratitude from one, do not expect to reveal the genius in you, or to understand your love. Completed the loop, not due to his self-esteem, or due to his disability, but just because it is not important, they are no longer compatibility of your lives. Stop by the fact that you are, and be who you are."

"I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."

"I've crossed these sands many times, said one of the camel drivers one night. But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent. The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force."

"I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve."

"I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling. I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists."

"I've experienced life enough to realize that fact does not comply with dreams but this is a big joy now that you say to this fact it is not need him and that happiness is not linked to the events that occur."

"I've known you for only a week, and it would be too early to say, I love you. During the early and late at the same time, because I had only this night. But the greatest of men and women and it is madness in love."

"I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything."

"Joy is a blessing but it often it is a conquest."

"I've realized that sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you. Of course it's risky, but is the risk any greater than the chance of the bus that took forty-eight hours to bring me here having an accident? If I must be faithful to someone or something, then I have, first of all, to be faithful to myself. If I'm looking for true love, I first have to get the mediocre loves out of my system. The little experience of life I've had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion - and that applies to material as well as spiritual things. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever (as has happened often enough tome already) finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine; it's best to live as if today were the first (or last) day of my life."

"Joy is like sex ? it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap."

"Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments - but all of these are transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken."

"Juggler stopped in the middle of the site, pulled three oranges and started juggling them. People gathered in a circle and marvel at the grace and flexibility of its movements. It's like life, no more, no less - told anyone about the traveler. - We always have one orange in each hand and one in the air. But it is one that is in the air makes all the difference. It can be thrown by the capable and experienced hands but fly their own course. Juggler Like we throw their dream world, but not always control it. At such times you need to know how to leave it in God's hands and if timely ask for what you dream it properly will follow its course and finished again will fall in your hand."

"Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different."

"Just as it is impossible to see one's face in troubled waters is impossible to be looking for God when your mind is disturbed because of the research is the first step... which starts out by faith."

"Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence."

"Know how to appreciate our adversaries and honor them, a far cry from what he does."

"Just as a war fought in winter demands different behavior and equipment from a war in the summer, human beings must learn to respect their own seasons, and not try to act when it is time to wait, not try to wait at a time of action."

"Knowing that doesn't make any difference. People do their best not to remember and not to accept the immense magical potential they possess, because that would upset their neat little universes."

"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them."

"Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralyzed by depression, loneliness and difficulties."

"Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble."

"It's the oasis, said the camel driver. Well, why don't we go there right now? the boy asked. Because we have to sleep."

"Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day."

"I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it."

"Knowing that the purpose of this promise is simply to make parting easier."