Great Throughts Treasury

"Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter."

"Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read."

"Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself."

"Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. From that point onwards, things change, the man and the woman come into play, but what happens before ? the attraction that brought them together ? is impossible to explain. It is untouched desire in its purest state. When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second."

"Problems of the heart always bruised the soul."

"Realization of death urges us to live life more strongly."

"Religion teaches that faith and transformation are the only ways of drawing near to God. Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery."

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense."

"Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony."

"Remember that human wisdom is madness in the eyes of God. But if we listen to the child who lives in our soul, our eyes will grow bright."

"Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love."

"Remember: when someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive."

"Rich men never waste a penny, only the poor are able."

"Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you."

"Retrieval of history is a great idea, it's the only way you change things out."

"Right here and now, you are beginning to wonder: is there really something wrong? Yes, there is. But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it?s Eternity. In India, they use the word ?karma,? for lack of any better term. But it?s a concept that?s rarely given a proper explanation. It isn?t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It?s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future."

"Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in."

"Rigor easy. Should just stay away from people, thus avoiding suffering. Risk in this case does not need love. Frustration John failed to buy."

"Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle."

"Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them."

"Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired."

"Risk everything in the name of chance and keep well away from everything that offers you a world of comfort."

"Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right."

"Search only this: to live what you've always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and focus on what you have always dreamed. It might not seem very important. But God, who sees all, knows that the example you give is helping to improve the world. And every day that passes, will cover more blessings."

"Security is possible to deviate from the path drawn by God? Yes, but it is wrong. Is it possible to avoid the pain? Yes, but you will learn something. Security possible to know something I did not test it yet? Yes, but it will not actually be part of you."

"Seek to live, remembrance is for the old."

"Seize every opportunity that life offers you because when opportunities go, it will take a long time to come back."

"Seeking to condemn the next love from the sufferings of the past."

"Serenity comes from the heart. Although the heart is often tormented by thoughts of insecurity, it knows that - through correct posture - it will be able to do its best."

"She came to realize that there are two things that keep a person to realize his dreams: believing that they are impracticable, or when the wheel of fortune turns unexpectedly, see them change possible when we least expect it. Indeed, in this case arises fear to embark on a path that we do not know the outcome, in a life woven unknown challenges in the event that the thing which we are accustomed disappear forever. People want to change everything, and at the same time, wish everything goes on evenly."

"She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not."

"She believed in the impossible and that's why you win the battle considered total including I'm losing, this is what distinguishes Warrior know that the courage and the will are not one, can courage to attract fear and flattery excessive, but willpower requires patience and commitment."

"She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane."

"She considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves."

"She had worked for forty years as a lawyer early in her career, she had quickly lost his ingenuous vision of justice, and she understood that the laws were not designed to solve problems, but to extend indefinitely quarrels."

"She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature."

"She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger"

"She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure."

"She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts, thighs, buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world."

"She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt."

"She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her."

"She still lives in a world in which people are faithful and vows of love are forever."

"She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment."

"She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence."

"She stopped in the middle of the icy garden. It was precisely because she had found everything so stupid that she had ended up accepting what life had naturally imposed on her. In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now, in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change."

"She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes a day, and that they?ll pay a fortune for it. That?s not true; a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life."

"She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul."

"She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration."

"She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is."

"She was terrified. She was beginning to realize that after long months of self-control, the pressure, the earthquake, the volcano of her soul was showing signs that it was about to erupt, and the moment that this happened, she would have no way of controlling her feelings."