Great Throughts Treasury

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Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum

One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

Fear | People | Think |

Estonian Proverbs

When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing.

Death | Man | Money |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When you ask it is given - but at some point you have to stop asking and start expecting.

Money | Thinking | Will |

Estonian Proverbs

The mistakes of others are good teachers.

Good | People |

Esther Perel

Love is an exercise in selective perception.

Commitment | Marriage | Security |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Most people have put anything that earns money in the category of the things that I HAVE to do. And that is why the money often comes so hard.

Children | Language | People | Talking | Universe | Think |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Take the time to line up the Energy first, and action becomes inconsequential. If you don't take the time to line up the Energy, if you don't find the feeling place of what you're looking for, not enough action in the world will make any difference.

Desire | Money | Nature | Spirit | World |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The law of attraction is most understood when you see yourself as a magnet getting more and more of the way you FEEL.

Achievement | Attainment | Body | Joy | Money | Possessions | Property | Success |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows - but only your attitude toward money.

People | Understanding | World |

Esther Perel

In order to be one, you must first be two.

Commitment | Love | Marriage | Relationship | Security | Story | Will | Writing |

Ethel Barrymore

There is as much difference between the stage and the film as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

People | Taste |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Great men have big hearts.

Adversity | People | Teach |

Esther Perel

When the impulse to share becomes obligatory, when personal boundaries are no longer respected, when only the shared space of togetherness is acknowledged and private space is denied, fusion replaces intimacy and possession co-opts love. It is also the kiss of death for sex. Deprived of enigma, intimacy becomes cruel when it excludes any possibility of discovery. Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

Paradox | People |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Why canÂ’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. YouÂ’ll find what youÂ’re trying to say in him- as youÂ’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' 'Fine! ThatÂ’s beautiful. But I wasnÂ’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so letÂ’s drink up and forget it. ThatÂ’s more my idea.

Beauty | Earth | Life | Life | Love | Order | Beauty | Afraid |

Eugene Peterson

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

People | Present |

Eugene Peterson

Our days are busy with little leisure for frills. We have work to do, interests to pursue, books to read, letters to write, the telephone to answer, errands to run, children to raise, investments to tend to, the lawn to mow, food to prepare and serve, the garbage to take out. We don’t need God’s help or counsel in doing any of these things. God is necessary for the big things, most obviously creation and salvation. But for the rest we can, for the most part, take care of ourselves. That usually adds up to a workable life, at least when accompanied by a decent job and a good digestion. But—it is not the practice of resurrection; it is not growing up in Christ, it is not living in the company of the Trinity.

Depression | Feelings | Security |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

I am so far from being a pessimist... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

People | Will | World |

Eugene Peterson

Instead of asking, “Why does this happen Why do I feel left in the lurch” we can ask “How does it happen that there are people who sing with such confidence, ‘God’s strong name is our help’”

Competence | God | Growth | Habit | Knowing | Knowledge | Love | People | Understanding | God |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

HOGAN: No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

Money | Wants | Understand |