Great Throughts Treasury

"To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one?s departure from this world."

"To dominate a man, it 'so I'm afraid."

"To be human is to have doubts, but still continue on its way."

"To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain."

"To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive"

"To dominate a man, make sure he was afraid."

"To have faith in our way, it is not necessary to show that the other way is wrong."

"To injure your opponent is to injure yourself."

"To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God."

"To love is to lose control."

"To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life."

"To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges."

"To reach the treasure you have to be vigilant for signs, he wrote to God our destiny, and chose the life that each of us has to witnessed by; but you do not have to read what you wrote."

"To realize one?s destiny is a person?s only real obligation."

"To those who say adventure is dangerous I say, try routine that kills you far quicker."

"To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"Today, I am convinced that no one loses nothing, because nothing anyone and is not. That's true freedom: to have the most important thing in the world, but it will not steal."

"Today, I understand something I didn?t see before: every blessing ignored becomes a curse."

"Today, somewhere, a treasure awaits you. It can be a smile, it can be a great conquest, whatever. Life is made of small and big miracles. Nothing is boring, because everything is constantly changing. The problem is not in the world, but in the way we see the world."

"To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are."

"Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life."

"Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die."

"Tolerance is not exasperated."

"Traditional religions? practices are important. They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer, but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love, and with love, there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior, others may turn to reading books of advice from experts on relationships but this is all folly. The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters."

"Torment happens when we want to love us the way we envision the other, and not in the way that love should be reflected in, free unrestricted, guides us strength and prevents stopped."

"Today, while we walk around the lake, along the road leading to Santiago strange man with me-a painter, with a life completely different from my life-has thrown a pebble into the water. The small circle appear pebbles falling where they grew, grew until they touched a duck swimming across by chance and had no pebble was related to both. Instead frightened by unexpected waves, we have decided to pay to play with it."

"Tragedy always brings about radical change in our lives, a change that is associated with the same principle: loss."

"Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react."

"Tragedy has always talked a radical change in our lives, a change linked to the same principle: the loss. When we face any loss is no point in restoring what was, it is best to take advantage of the larger space, which is prescribed to us. Theoretically every loss is better for us. In the presence of God, what have you done to deserve this?"

"Traveling is not always a question of money, but of courage. You spent a great part of your life going around the world like a hippie: what money did you have then? None. You could hardly afford the tickets, and nevertheless I believe they were some of the best years of your life - eating badly, sleeping at railway stations, unable to communicate because of the language, being forced to depend on others just in order to find some shelter to spend the night."

"Transformations always occur during moments of crisis."

"Traveling is sacred; mankind has traveled ever since the dawn of time, in search of hunting and grazing ground, or milder climates. Very few men manage to understand the world without leaving their home towns. When you travel - and I am not speaking of tourism, but of the solitary experience of a journey - four important things occur in your life:"

"Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present"

"Tragedy of life similar to her days, and repeated her things"

"Travel helps us to continually acquire new friends, without being forced to stay with them day after day. When we see always the same people, it will lead to a considered part of our lives. If they are trying to change it, in the end. Just as we did not wish to see us, resent, because people all of whom believe they know exactly how it should be our lives."

"Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents"

"Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you?ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them. You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it?s better to listen to what it has to say. That way, you?ll never have to fear an unanticipated blow."

"True love, however, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced."

"Tribesmen were also wary of consulting them, because it would be impossible to be effective in battle if one knew that he was fated to die. The tribesmen preferred the taste of battle, and the thrill of not knowing what the outcome would be; the future was already written by Allah, and what he had written was always for the good of man."

"Trust in your heart, but never forget that you're in the desert."

"True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering."

"True love changes and grows over time and discover new ways to express"

"Try the impossible. Don?t start low down because that?s where you are now. Climb those rungs quickly before they take the ladder away. If you?re afraid, say a prayer, but carry on."

"Truth resides where there is faith."

"Try and travel alone, or - if you are married - with your spouse. It will be harder work, no one will be looking after you, but this is the only way of truly leaving your country. Group travel is just a disguised way of pretending to go abroad, where you speak your own language, obey the leader of the pack, and concern yourself more with the internal gossip of the group than with the place you are visiting."

"Try to be good, you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the nice good people as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late."

"Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it."

"Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy."

"Trying to support you with their gaze as if a gaze could ever support anyone!"

"Try to live. Leave memories for old-he said. Perhaps love makes us age prematurely, and makes us more young people when passing youth. But how can we forget those moments?"