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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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Take some time to be silent and repeat the sound of God as an inner mantra. Meditation allows you to make conscious contact with your Source and achieve success in every area. If a problem arises, then go within, get very quiet about it and find the answers inside of you.

Experience | Feelings | Prosperity | Responsibility | Suffering | Will |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!

Consciousness | Prosperity |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

There is not scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love, there is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Prosperity |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you... with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

Prosperity |

Wendell Berry

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

Good | Health | Life | Life | Prosperity | Security | Will |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

Lay your sleeping head, my love, human on my faithless arm; time and fevers burn away individual beauty from thoughtful children, and the grave proves the child ephemeral; but in my arms till break of day let the living creature lie: mortal, guilty, but to me the entirely beautiful.

Belief | Deeds | God | Love | Man | Order | People | Prosperity | Sacrifice | Deeds | God | Victim |

W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer

The topics and treatment of the mathematics syllabus should be determined by the following principles: a. The course must be enjoyable and generate steadily increasing enthusiasm in the pupils, b. It should develop independence and activity of mind, curiosity, observation, and confidence, c. It should make pupils familiar with the basic ideas and processes of mathematics.

Children | Confidence | Life | Life | Mathematics | Truth | Will | Value |

Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Confidence | Faith | Man | Think |

Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh

That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t

Better | Confidence | Desire | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Money | Need | Passion | Time | Will | Work | Trouble | Learn | Think |

Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

All the same that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park...then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was! -- that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

Confidence |

Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra or Zarathushtra Spitama NULL

The teacher of evil destroys the lore, he by his teaching destroys the design of life, he prevents the possession of Good Thought from being prized. These words of my spirit I wail unto you, O Mazda, and to the Right.

Evil | Faith | Good | Land | Mind | Order | Principles | Prosperity | Blessed |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

Cosmic wisdom reveals why unhappy events happen, after which they cease to happen.

Confidence | People | Truth |

Victor Hugo

Age is no threat to the great men of the mind: with the Dantes and the Michelangelos, to grow older is to grow.

Prosperity |

Victor Hugo

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Peace | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

My anxiety is over. The Guru has cut away my bonds, and I have found eternal peace. Whatever shall be, shall be in the end; so where can pain and pleasure be seen?

Peace | Prosperity | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Such is my love for the Lord of the Universe; through perfect good destiny, I have been united with Him.

Harmony | Peace | Prosperity | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Repent for all the wrongs done and resolve not to repeat the mistake; then God will extend His grace.

Attainment | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Mind is a double edged sword. It has immense power and it is capable of accomplishing both useful and destructive feats.

Life | Life | Peace | Prosperity |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

One, who does not cast evil eyes on her 'own' house... who does not have malevolence towards her husband... giver of joy...seeker of family's welfare... who treads on the righteous path... gives happiness to all... serves all... gives birth to good sons... keeps her brother-in-laws satisfied and gives nourishing food...May such a wife help us attain prosperity.

Knowledge | Prosperity | Wishes | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

A weak man can never achieve success in his life.

Peace | Prosperity | Blessed |