Great Throughts Treasury

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Elif Safak

How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

Elias Canetti

If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word “God” merely because it was always there.

Experiment | Life | Life | Little | Play | Reason |

Elihu Root

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Justice |

Eli Pariser

This is a big moment. We're coming together from across the spectrum to protect the principles that are core to our identity as Americans.

Justice |

Elif Safak

As soon as the words were out, sorry. Was preferable to the man considered extremely being a woman, as no other. It should not have to show any of it or another, it is imperfect, vulnerable person like everyone else. If you know that wearing a heart of glass, it will break.

Ability | Art | Practice | Reason | Art |

Elihu Root

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Circumstances | Justice | Right | Sense |

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Justice | Rights |

Elif Safak

Now, to appease his conscience when he did the balance of a long life, he had taken this strange journey and was home to a woman with such expectations. The outer walls were the color of ash cherchevetata windows and balcony railings were painted in two different colors - lighter and darker shade of gray. When discrete scenery around the double door were completed, the block shone with dazzling beauty. Most striking feature of the building, which at the insistence of Pavel Pavlovich Antipov was built in the style ar nuvo9, although it was no longer in vogue was that floors were completely different. The apartments on the ground floor, as if to compensate for the lack of balconies were much larger windows than others. As for the balcony, and they were different on each floor. terrace on the second floor were heavily exported forward in graceful semicircle, and those on the third floor were more retracted so that one could easily sit without being visible from the outside. Balcony on the fourth floor were like those of the second, except that instead of metal railings had curb decorated with embossed flowers, and at both ends were attached marble pots, in which you can grow plants. differences were so striking that one wondered Yet if the residents of these apartments they live in the same place. reliefs on the front façade to balance between decoration windows on the first and second floor, very eye-catching. Here in the circle was painted peacock with a small head and a huge body. His five items, two right, two left and one right on the head sticking out of different countries. One pointed toward the sky, and the other - the four cardinal directions. At the end of each feather was painted a large eye, beautifully finished with subtle touches that resemble eyelashes. In complete contrast, the head of the peacock was brought down. Directly below his feet in a faint oval frame was inscribed the initials of the spouses. - Elif Shafak , The Flea Palace

Depression | Global | Opportunity | Reason |

Elihu Root

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Government | Growth | Individual | Judgment | Practice | Reason | Government |

Elias Canetti

When he has nothing to say, he lets words speak.

Experience | Justice | Knowledge | Language | Literature | Man | Men | Past | People | Rights | Story | Time | Words | Worth | Child |

William Shakespeare

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. Richard III, Act iii, Scene 1

Virtue | Virtue | Will |

William Shakespeare

Since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

Men | Reason | Rest |

William Shakespeare

ROSALIND: I' faith, his hair is of a good color. CELIA: An excellent color. Your chestnut was ever the only color.

Love | Reason |

William Shakespeare

Sure, he's not in hell; he's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o’ the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a’ babbled of green fields.

Capability | Reason |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Belief | Books | Care | Decision | Diligence | Divinity | Faith | Reason | Religion | Universe | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.

Absence | Children | Desire | Enough | People | Reason | Regret | Thinking | Witness | Think |

William Shakespeare

Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon, and fightest with the sword of Deborah.

Anger | Man | Question | Reason |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

Attention | Change | Control | Death | Ego | God | Heart | Important | Life | Life | Light | Little | Love | Marriage | Mind | People | Purpose | Purpose | Reason | Relationship | Right | Soul | Space | Time | Universe | Will | God | Afraid | Think | Understand |

Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

Genius | Justice |

Elizabeth Gilbert

You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have four legs, instead of two...But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look thorough your heart, instead

Desire | Reason | Success |