Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My mind was never to invade my neighbors.

Desire | Distrust | Fear |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

Desire | Religion |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

Desire |

Emil M. Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Desire |

Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

Love and thoughts are not in space and time.

Desire | Good | Joy | Kindness | Life | Life |

Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.

Desire |

Emile Zola

My nights would otherwise be haunted by the spectre of the innocent man, far away, suffering the most horrible of tortures for a crime he did not commit.

Desire | Eternal | God | Good | Happy | Heaven | Humanity | Life | Life | Longing | God | Happiness |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.

Desire |

Emma Goldman

Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.

Desire | Individual | Integrity | Nothing | People | Plenty | War | Wisdom |

Emmet Fox

The whole of our life's experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.

Chance | Desire | Forgiveness | Heart | Nothing | Problems | Troubles | Forgiveness | Forgive | Teacher |

Emmet Fox

Silent prayer is more powerful than audible prayer, because by silent prayer the mind comes closer to creative Spirit.

Desire | Forgiveness | Law | Love | Means | Object | Resentment | Soul | Time | Truth | Will | Work | World | Forgiveness | Think |

Emmet Fox

Prayer is always the solution. No matter what kind of difficulty may be facing you, no matter how complicated your problem may seem – prayer can solve it. Of course you will also take whatever practical steps seem to be indicated, and if you do not know what steps to take, prayer will show you. Prayer is constantly bringing about the seemingly impossible, and there is no conceivable problem that has not at some time been solved by prayer.

Business | Circumstances | Desire | Failure | Free will | God | Good | Harm | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Neglect | Order | People | Right | Rule | Sacred | Wants | Will | Failure | Business | God | Think |

Emmet Fox

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

Body | Consciousness | Desire | Forgiveness | Position | Prayer | Search | Will | Forgiveness | Forgive | Old |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

Aid | Desire | Future | People | Question | Talking | Value |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin.

Depression | Desire | Giving | Little | Men | Money | Troubles | Work | Think |

Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

The feeling of revolt will grow stronger every day among the peoples subjected to various degrees of exploitation, and they will take up arms to gain by force the rights which reason alone has not won them.

Desire | Ideals | Purpose | Purpose | Sacrifice |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If we were talking to you on your first day here we would say, "Welcome to planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have. And your work here, your lifetime career is...to seek joy."

Desire | Means |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

I Love you so much, I don't care what you think.

Care | Desire |

Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Antithesis | Courage | Desire | Faith | Knowledge | Man | Men | Mind | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Reality | Religion | Soul | Thinking | World |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

Desire | Will |