Great Throughts Treasury

"The whole universe conspires so that your personal legend is made."

"The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love."

"The wind changes the shape of the dunes, but the desert remains the same."

"The wise are wise only because they love. Fools are fools only because they think they can understand love."

"The widow smiled, her eyes shone and could see how beautiful it was ... Elias filled the cup again. His heart began to be alarmed; liked being next to this woman. Love could be a more formidable experience be before a soldier with an arrow pointing towards the heart. If the arrow reached him, would be dead, and the rest would stay in charge of God; but if love hurt, it would have to bear the consequences."

"The words are written in tears. Tears are words that need to break out. Without them no joy, no glamor and no sorrow will end."

"The world conspires for dreamers."

"The wise man is wise because he loves. The madman is mad because he thinks he can understand love."

"The world does not divide into enemies and friends, but into the weak and strong."

"The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things."

"The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where."

"The world has never been as divided as it is now."

"The world always was and always will be complicated."

"The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis, depression, poverty, with everyone wanting instant solutions to at least some of the world's problems or their own. And things only look bleaker as we head into future."

"The world is built on relationships, not anything else. They will one day ask a favor of you; and you shall be respected and once you help these people who're going to help, and in time the entire world networks will spread, you need everyone who knows you'll be and the environment created in the impressions you will grow constantly."

"The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don?t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don?t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword."

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."

"The world is such that: people talk as if they know everything, but if you dare to ask a questions, you will see that they do not know anything."

"The world is of two types: the world in which we dream, and the real world."

"The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don?t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy."

"The world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material plane."

"The world is waiting for her on the living treasure, but we start, while we're talking about, because people no longer want to find only the kids are saying these things, then we look at how each life to meet his destiny. But unfortunately few people are watching the forecast calling for their happiness and then we, we are talking about less and less, but never silent."

"The world is unfathomable and mysterious, just as we all are. The art of the warrior consists of reconciling the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man."

"The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent."

"The world only gets better because people risk something to make it better."

"The world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are."

"The wrong answer will indicate the right one."

"The worst way to choose a lifetime and wonder if well chosen. No one can choose a path, without feeling fear."

"The world should seek truth and justice, but concentrates on the items, after six months they become useless and instead bought the others, because only in such a world circulation tops can hold little worth, today the congregation in Cannes."

"Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable."

"Their mouths shut when you're about to say something important."

"Then the eyes and heart of the warrior begin to adjust to the light. No longer frightens him, and he goes to accept his legend, even if it means taking risks."

"The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, you?re always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us."

"Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth - began to show him the people around him on the beach. The wonderful father who was busy packing things up and helping his children put on some warm clothes and who would love to have an affair with his secretary, but was terrified on his wife's response. His wife who would like to work and have her independence, but who was terrified of her husband's response. The children who behave themselves because they were terrified of being punished. The girl who was reading a book all on her own beneath the sunshade, pretending she didn't care, but inside was terrified of spending the rest of her life alone. The boy running around with a tennis racquet , terrified of having to live up to his parents' expectations. The waiter serving tropical drinks to the rich customers and terrified that he could be sacked at any moment. The young girl who wanted to be a dance, but who was studying law instead because she was terrified of what the neighbors might say. The old man who didn't smoke or drink and said he felt much better for it, when in truth it was the terror of death what whispered in his ears like the wind. The married couple who ran by, splashing through the surf, with a smile on their face but with a terror in their hearts telling them that they would soon be old, boring and useless. The man with the suntan who swept up in his launch in front of everybody and waved and smiled, but was terrified because he could lose all his money from one moment to the next. The hotel owner, watching the whole idyllic scene from his office, trying to keep everyone happy and cheerful, urging his accountants to ever greater vigilance, and terrified because he knew that however honest he was government officials would still find mistakes in his accounts if they wanted to."

"Then there are those who plant. They endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure."

"Then you?ll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That?s a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were."

"Then, we warriors of light must be prepared to have patience in difficult times and to know that the Universe is conspiring in our favor. Even though we may not understand how."

"There are four obstacles. First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. The second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. The third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. The fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives."

"There are a lot of people they would like to talk about aspects of the lives of others by helping them protesters really terrible! But in fact they enjoy the suffering of others... it drives them to feel that they are happy and that life has bestowed on them!"

"There are moments in life where you have to take risks, to do crazy things."

"There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason."

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them."

"There are no risks in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realized that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more than one Soulmate in the same incarnation."

"There are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought."

"There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things."

"There are probably other things in the world the sheep can't teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. All they ever do really is look for food and water. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me but that I was learning from them."

"There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end."

"There are stories of unfinished , which should remain closer to Alstkh. So continue in the present, and when we ended that story or chapter we can start the following story."

"There are things that are brought into our lives to lead us back to the true path of our Personal Legend. Other things arise so we can apply all that we have learned. And, finally, some things come along to teach us."

"There are things in life that are worth fighting to the end."