Great Throughts Treasury

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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Force | Trust |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

Weakness |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

A non-doer is very often a critic – that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

Force | Mind |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Teach children that stress comes from the way in which they think and not from people or life situations.

Desire | Force | Life | Life |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.

Force | Life | Life |

Welsh Proverbs

A willful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon.

Advice | Husband | Woe | Worth |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.

Force | Harmony |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Force | Self |

Wendell Berry

If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?

Force | Love | Mortal | Nature | Omnipotence | World |

Wendell Berry

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years... Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts... Practice resurrection.

Force | Life | Life |

Wendell Berry

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.

Culture | Force | Generosity | Necessity | People | Sacred | Work |

Wendell Berry

I can no longer forget that loss and illness and trouble, however a person may exploit them, cannot be exploited without being suffered.

Ignorance | Nature | Present | Weakness | World |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Example | Force | Mother | Words | Writing |

Wendell Berry

To imply by the word "terrorism" that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of "terrorists" is misleading. The "legitimate" warfare of technologically advanced nations likewise is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents. The distinction between the intention to perpetrate violence against innocents, as in "terrorism," and the willingness to do so, as in "war," is not a source of comfort.

Art | Dependence | Husband | Land | Life | Life | People | Practice | Art | Old |

W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield

I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas that I'd like to discuss with thee.

Husband | Following |

W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy

The Ego is not the primary center of Awareness….the Self is. The Shadow is not the primary center of awareness…the Self is. The ego is the reflecting witness. The unfoldment of a life is driven by the unconscious dynamics between Self...the Shadow…and the Ego. What the ego is aware of is mostly socialization attitudes, biases, preferences, and filtered perceptions. The Self is the only responsible agent for the entire mystery of one’s life. Free will of the Shadow or of the Ego is an illusion generated out of a limited awareness. When witnessing the Divine Play of one’s Life…best not to appropriate any of what is seen, revealed, or experienced as personal.

Consciousness | Deceit | Ego | Force | Guarantee | Life | Life | Little | Love | Soul | Time |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.

Force | Words |

W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Evil | Existence | Strength | Weakness |

W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind.... The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and clasical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.

Agitation | Authority | Change | Church | Conscience | Controversy | Doctrine | Enthusiasm | Force | Language | Light | Men | Method | Peace | Principles | Reason | Religion | Right | Sense | Spirit | Theology | Will |