Great Throughts Treasury

"The most important meetings have been planned by the souls even before the bodies have been seen."

"The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don?t talk anymore, they don?t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories."

"The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone."

"The most tenacious universal language in the world is love."

"The music speaks for itself, there?s no need to say anything."

"The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles."

"The night is just a part of the day."

"The noblest thing a human being can experience is acceptance of the mystery"

"The omens to be things of this world. Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do."

"The need to complicate something very whose beauty lay in simplicity and passion."

"The only real purpose of the tie is that withdraws, soon returned home, to give the impression of being freed from something, but we do not know what."

"The only obligation is to realize true human destiny."

"The only greatness is unselfish Love."

"The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you."

"The only trap I must beware not to fall into is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle."

"The only way to make the right decision, the decision is to recognize the wrong: carefully examine the other way, without fear and not ill, and then choose."

"The only way to beat temptation is to give in to it."

"The only way we can save our dreams is to be generous with us."

"The only way out of envy is concentrating forces in Love."

"The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant from the true meaning of life, for his reduced reasoning turns him into the saint or monster he imagines he is, and before he realizes it, he is caught in the trap he has set himself. This type of person loves being told what he should do, but even more than that, he loves not following sound advice - simply in order to anger the generous soul who, at a certain moment, was concerned about him."

"The pain of yesterday is the strength of today."

"The optimist and the pessimist both die in the end, but each lives is life in a completely different way."

"The past and future exist only in the mind, but the present moment it is beyond the time it is eternal."

"The Price of Freedom is expensive, like the price of slavery; The only difference between them in the first case, you pay the price of pleasure, with a smile, even when Toshhaa tears"

"The priest said something like: Of all the languages in the world, have the same adage: 'the eye does not see the heart does not hurt.' Well, I say that there is not a bit of truth in that statement. We farther, all the emotions that we try to repress and forget it closer to my heart than. If we are in exile, we would want to keep the memories built either her tiny roots. If we stay away from those we love, every person will pass on the street are reminiscent of them... At the end of the ceremony, I met the priest to thank him: I have to say that I am a stranger among a strange land, and I thank you father for having reminded me that there are things the eyes cannot see, but the heart still hurts."

"The princess has become toad. How important is this? Who do I need to prove something if I do not seek anything, man or love?"

"The people who came from the whole world have gone through this village? here to search for new things, but they remain as they are."

"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."

"The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop seeking."

"The most important thing in human relationship is conversation. But people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books but they almost never talk."

"The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?"

"The person who loves wholeheartedly feels free."

"The possibility of realizing a dream is what makes life interesting."

"The pure force of life are in communication with each other, independently of us, and then we cannot hide who we are."

"The rain is falling ever harder, and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I?m drenched, but I can?t move. I don?t want to leave, because I don?t know where to go."

"The prophets always ascend to heaven with the Lord. I was always wondering why impose it? And now I knew the answer. When we are high above we can see everything without us young, and then loses its importance and sorrow. Even if our occupation or misled, this will remain at the bottom there. Over the tops of the mountains you see how much the world is large, and how much is the wide horizons."

"The power of man will not transform. Love, yes."

"The process of growth of an individual requires a certain price which it scares without protest."

"The RAM Breathing Exercise: Expel all of the air from your lungs, emptying them as much as you can. Then, inhale slowly as you raise your arms as high as possible. As you inhale, concentrate on allowing love, peace, and harmony with the universe to enter into your body. Hold the air you have taken in and keep your arms raised for as long as you can, enjoying the harmony between your inner sensations and the outer world. When you reach your limit, exhale all of the air rapidly, as you say the word, ?RAM.? Repeat this process for five minutes each time you do the exercise."

"The reward of our work is not what we get, but what we become."

"The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water."

"The right of every person to doubt his mission, and abandon them from time to time. But what must not do is to forget. And no doubt its worth, the absolute faith in his ability, commits the sin of pride and vanity. Blessed are those who pass their moments of indecision."

"The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them."

"The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it?s taking chances, falling over and getting up again; its mountaineering; its wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don?t manage it."

"The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is."

"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better, forget about the future and live each day according to the teachings, confident that God loves his children. Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."

"The secret of happiness is to see all the amazing things in this world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon."

"The second symptom of the death of our dreams lies in our certainties. Because we don?t want to see life as a grand adventure, we begin to think of ourselves as wise and fair and correct in asking so little of life. We look beyond the walls of our day-to-day existence, and we hear the sound of lances breaking, we smell the dust and the sweat, and we see the great defeats and the fire in the eyes of the warriors. But we never see the delight, the immense delight in the hearts of those who are engaged in the battle. For them, neither victory nor defeat is important; what?s important is only that they are fighting the good fight. ?And, finally, the third symptom of the passing of our dreams is peace. Life becomes a Sunday afternoon; we ask for nothing grand, and we cease to demand anything more than we are willing to give. In that state, we think of ourselves as being mature; we put aside the fantasies of our youth, and we seek personal and professional achievement. We are surprised when people our age say that they still want this or that out of life. But really, deep in our hearts, we know that what has happened is that we have renounced the battle for our dreams ? we have refused to fight the good fight."

"The search for peace is a form of prayer that generates light and heat. Forget about yourself for a while and understand that in that light lies wisdom and in that heat lies compassion."

"The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them."