Great Throughts Treasury

"You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself."

"You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone, if you do, you will be respected by no one."

"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."

"You would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard."

"You will only be loved and respected if you love and respect yourself. Never try to please everyone; if you do, you will be respected by no one."

"Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth. If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know."

"You?re asking the wrong question. What you need to know is are you in a position to give him the love he needs. And whatever happens or doesn?t happen will be equally gratifying, knowing that you are capable of love is enough. If it isn?t him, it will be someone else? Don?t try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don?t wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect."

"Your eyes show the strength of your soul."

"Your personal devil tries three classical approaches: a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side."

"You?re not here anymore. You?ve got to leave in order to return to the present."

"You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman."

"Your hand is small, yet it can completely cover the power, light and majesty of the great sun. In the same way, the small problems manage to give you the excuse you need in order to hinder your progress along your spiritual journey."

"You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented."

"You're part of me, the most important part, which is deserted. I would not be the person who never accent."

"You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness."

"You're wrong when you say that the others have recovered from the shock? According to a remote location not they mean never has no place in this world for the feelings of exposing the truth of who we are, miserable, frustrated and helpless * You must sometimes travel far to find what is nearby two things can only have to disclose the secrets of the great life: suffering and love. Spirit that is outside we could, just outside the wound of God we could, but our memories? and this is what brings misery to our lives, even if we have all we need to be happy."

"Zuma is talking about the nature of the Zia when winter comes, the trees shed their leaves must be sighing with sadness to see that. Themselves say: Never again we will not be the same course. Or what is the point of renewing themselves? Which will be new leaves will have their own personality, they will never be the same as the previous one newcomer and one summer will belong to survive is changeable; and seasons teaches us this lesson again every year. Change to pass a period of depression means: we must forget everything we used to be and also the newcomers do not know. But have a little patience, we come to the end of spring and then desperately do we forget that we spend the winter. Change is the law of life and renewal. Just because there are things to bring us happiness rather than sorrow, it is better to get used to them."

"Zahir in Arabic, means visible, present, one of which is impossible not to notice. Something or someone to us, after you know, little by little, occupies minds until we can no longer focus on anything else. It can be interpreted as sacred or as foolishness."