Great Throughts Treasury

"Nothing in the narrow world... but in the way that we see it."

"Nothing happens by chance."

"Not one of us can predict the events of the next moment, however, see us move forward, because we have confidence in, and people that we have faith."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear, said her father looking at the clock. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day."

"Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God."

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

"Nothing wrong with looking like a fool if what you are doing is far from foolish."

"Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect."

"Nothing. Although they are flowers you did not count on, they are still part of the garden."

"Now I can enjoy the freedom you always dreamed of owning. That's a lie! No one wants this kind of freedom; All of us are willing to link, willing people to our side to enjoy Bjmalat Geneva, to discuss books, articles, movies, or even to share a sandwich because we lack up enough money to buy two. better to eat half a sandwich with one of them instead of eating a sandwich complete alone. better to baptize a man for a boycott of his wife, because he would like to return just to the house to watch the game great on television, or to stop women in front of a store front, and the intersection of her husband He speaks from the cathedral. all this much better than that owns one of Geneva as a whole, that has everything in the world of time and quiet to visit. better to starve to be alone. When the lonely - and I am talking about the unity of coercive and is not optional - it seems as if you are no longer a part of the human race."

"Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth?no matter how small?left to be discovered."

"Now, my present, has arrived, and it's you."

"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair."

"O God, when I listen to the voices of animals, the sounds of trees, the murmurings of water, the singing of birds, the whistling of the wind, or the boom of thunder, I see in them evidence of Your unity; I feel that You are supreme power, omniscience, supreme knowledge, and supreme justice."

"Now that I'm at the end of my life, I leave to those who come after everything I learned as I walked down the face of the Earth. Make good use of it. '"

"Now that she realized she had been waiting for him?she did not like that."

"Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us."

"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."

"Of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues."

"Of course love can change a man, but desperation can do it faster."

"Of course, and the reason is very simple: routines give them the false sensation of being safe. Thus, today will be exactly like yesterday, and tomorrow will bring no surprises. When night falls, part of the soul complains that nothing different was experienced, but another part is content - paradoxically, it is for the same reason."

"Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction."

"On the one faith in the ability of each person to teach himself."

"Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing."

"On the River Piedra ... I sat down and cried. Legend has it that everything falls into the waters of this river - leaves, insects, the feathers of birds - turns the stones of your bed. Oh, I wish I could rip the heart from my chest and throw it into the stream, and then there would be no more pain, or longing, or souvenirs. Ace banks of the River Piedra I sat down and cried. It's cold winter made me feel the tears on my face, and they mingled with the icy waters that run in front of me. Somewhere this river joins another, then to another, until - far from my eyes and my heart - all these waters mix with the sea. May my tears run so far away, my love for you will never know that one day I cried for him. My tears run far away, and then I forget the River Piedra, the monastery, the church in the Pyrenees, the mists, the paths we have traveled together. I forget the roads, mountains, and fields of my dreams - dreams were mine, and I knew it not."

"Once a year, the inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses, made two lists, turned to face the highest mountain and then raised their first list to the heavens. 'Here, Lord, are all the sins I have committed against you, they said, reading the account of all the sins they had committed. Business swindles, adulteries, injustices, things of that sort. I have sinned and beg forgiveness for having offended You so greatly. 'Then - and here lay Ahab's originality - the residents immediately pulled the second list out of their pocket and, still facing the same mountain, they held that one up to the skies too. And they said something like: And here, Lord, is a list of all Your sins against me: You made me work harder than necessary, my daughter fell ill despite all my prayers, I as robbed when I was trying to be honest, I suffered more than was fair. After reading out the second list, they ended the ritual I have been unjust towards You and You have been towards me. However, since today is the Day of Atonement, You will forget my faults and I will forget Yours and we can carry on together for another year."

"Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the freedom that exists in the world of madness and becomes addicted to it. You no longer have to take on responsibilities, to struggle to earn your daily bread, to be bothered with repetitive, mundane tasks. You could spend hours looking at a picture or making absurd doodles. Everything is tolerated because, after all, the person is mentally ill."

"On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop."

"Once in exile, we want to keep every single memory of our roots, and when we are far away from a loved one, every passer-by on the street to remind us."

"Once someone asked me, ?What do you want to be your epitaph?? So I said, ?Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.?"

"Once people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they outweigh those with the ability of perception."

"Once the case with cannot happen ever again, but certainly the case with twice gets a third time."

"One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters ? whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished."

"Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. Once upon a time is how all the best children's stories begin, and prostitute is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning."

"Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him."

"Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colorful, marvelous feathers. One day, a woman saw this bird and fell in love with him. She invited the bird to fly with her, and the two travelled across the sky in perfect harmony. She admired and venerated and celebrated that bird. But then she thought: He might want to visit far-off mountains! And she was afraid, afraid that she would never feel the same way about any other bird. And she thought: I?m going to set a trap. The next time the bird appears, he will never leave again. The bird, who was also in love, returned the following day, fell into the trap and was put in a cage. She looked at the bird every day. There he was, the object of her passion, and she showed him to her friends, who said: Now you have everything you could possibly want. However, a strange transformation began to take place: now that she had the bird and no longer needed to woo him, she began to lose interest. The bird, unable to fly and express the true meaning of his life, began to waste away and his feathers to lose their gloss; he grew ugly; and the woman no longer paid him any attention, except by feeding him and cleaning out his cage. One day, the bird died. The woman felt terribly sad and spent all her time thinking about him. But she did not remember the cage, she thought only of the day when she had seen him for the first time, flying contentedly amongst the clouds. If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realized that what had thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body. Without the bird, her life too lost all meaning, and Death came knocking at her door. Why have you come? she asked Death. So that you can fly once more with him across the sky, Death replied. If you had allowed him to come and go, you would have loved and admired him ever more; alas, you now need me in order to find him again."

"One can identify the companion spirit, of that glamor that radiates from his eyes, when it comes time that it recognizes every person on his true love."

"Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad. The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king?s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them. When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication. In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ?Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.? And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ?wisdom?, why not allow him to rule the country? The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days."

"One cannot have love without ownership."

"One cannot learn to love by following the manual."

"One day you will wake up and there won?t be any more time to do the things you?ve always wanted. Do it now."

"One cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance."

"One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own itinerary, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see."

"One does not need to climb mountains, to know it is high."

"One doesn't love in order to do what is good, or to help, or to protect someone. If we act that way, we are perceiving the other as an object, and we are seeing ourselves as wise and generous?To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God."

"One evening, for example, he was troubled because he could no longer tell whether or not his actions were pleasing to God. He went to see the bishop and asked what he should do. 'Abraham took in strangers, and God was happy,' came the reply. 'Elijah disliked strangers, and God was happy. David was proud of what he was doing, and God was happy. The publican before the alter was ashamed of what he did, and God was happy. John the Baptist went out into the desert, and God was happy. Paul went to the great cities of the Roman Empire, and God was happy. How can one know what will please the Almighty? Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy."

"One is in a different place, so the protective barriers no longer exist. To begin with this can be alarming, but soon one gets used to it and starts understanding how many interesting things there are beyond the walls of one's garden."

"One fine day I'll reach the conclusion that that's what life is like: There's no point worrying bout it; nothing will change. And I'll accept it."