Great Throughts Treasury

"One loves because Love is the Greatest Gift, not because it gives us something in return."

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

"One must make the most of opportunities, or they are lost forever."

"One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is."

"One moment, you have nothing, the next you have more than you cope with."

"One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants."

"One of the main themes of my books - the need to pay for their dreams. However unwittingly, the question arises: Is this just does not play anything with us, imposing on those dreams? The past few decades, we live in a society, evaluating the most fame, money and power. For most of us installed in consciousness, that is the true values of and appropriate to seek and those that we try to implement these ideas hiding behind the scenes and will never remained away from the eyes. They understand that the greatest power to what one observes after a time when it is too late to get hold of something when it has trapped."

"One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness."

"One person's courage will help the other person to be equally brave."

"One should only do that which truly fills our hearts with enthusiasm."

"One speaks in a language one doesn't understand, uses money whose worth one does not know, and wanders down streets for the very first time. One knows the old I, with all it learned, is completely useless in the face of these new challenges - and begins discovering that, buried deep down in one's unconscious, there is something far more interesting, adventurous, open to the world and to new experiences."

"Only children believe they're capable of everything."

"One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's."

"Only Elijah stayed in the valley, and while scouring the back light to him, and manifested an angel of God in front of him and said: God heard your prayers and saw the agony of your soul. Directed Elijah to heaven to thank God for his grace and said: O God, O source of all greatness and power, stopped the Assyrian army. said Angel: Do not. I assumed that the choice for him, which left the choice is yours."

"Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious."

"Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened."

"Only one thing can make a dream come true unenforceable: it is the fear of failure."

"Only love can transform us to escape slavery and freedom."

"Only cowards hide behind silence."

"Only one who renounces is defeated."

"Only someone capable of honoring each step he takes can comprehend his own worth."

"Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you?."

"Only the defeated know LOVE. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose."

"Only the living are dying."

"Only those who fail to recognize that inner strength will say, I lost, and be sad."

"Only those who have a task known difficulties."

"Only when l know, the truth will set me free!"

"Only those who find life, find treasures."

"Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love."

"Oscar Wilde said: 'Each man kills the thing he loves.' And it's true. The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far. I have known a lot of people who, when their personal calling was within their grasp, went on to commit a series of stupid mistakes and never reached their goal - when it was only a step away. This is the most dangerous of the obstacles because it has a kind of saintly aura about it. Renouncing joy and conquest. But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here."

"Others stumbled upon the stone by accident. They already had the gift, and their souls were readier for such things than the souls of others. But they don't count. They're quite rare."

"Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived."

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

"Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence."

"Our heart knows why we are here. Whoever listens to his heart, follows the signs, and lives his Personal Legend, will understand that he is taking part in something, even if he doesn't comprehend it rationally. There is a tradition which says that, the second before our death, we realize the true reason for our existence. And at that moment, Hell and Heaven are born."

"Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found."

"Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive."

"Our Lady, give it back faith. I can also be a tool for your job. Give me the opportunity to learn through my love. Because love never took anyone of your dreams. May I be partner and ally the man I love. He does all that have to do... to me."

"Our lives are continuous journey from the cradle to the grave. The landscape is changing, people change, but the train continued walking. Life is not a train station."

"Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time."

"Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that."

"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives."

"Our lives are ours. World took a lot of time and effort to get to what it is, and we do as best we can. Not keeping us perfect, but we are satisfied with our lives. However, there is a missing link. There has always been a missing link."

"Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes."

"Outside, beyond what is right and wrong, there exists a vast field. We will find each other there."

"Pain was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure."

"Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life."

"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later that children understand; their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the water of their lives."

"Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life."

"Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do."