Great Throughts Treasury

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Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind.

Art | Consolation | Life | Life | Light | Nothing | Speech | Work | World | Writing | Art |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You will know your path by the fun of it.

Attention | Cause | Giving | Harmony | Work |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Do not blame God for having created the tiger, but thank Him for not giving it wings.

Love |

Esther Perel

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. Love likes to shrink the distance that exists between me and you, while desire is energized by it. If intimacy grows through repetition and familiarity, eroticism is numbed by repetition. It thrives on the mysterious, the novel, and the unexpected. Love is about having; desire is about wanting.

Desire | Love | Sense |

Estonian Proverbs

Who eats will be strong.

Will | Work |

Esther Perel

Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.

Desire | Knowing | Love |

Esther Perel

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

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

Estonian Proverbs

Who doesn't collect kopecks will not get a ruble.

Will | Work |

Ethiopian Proverbs

A belt fastened while running will come undone while running.

Love | Taste |

Estonian Proverbs

There is no room for two kings in one castle.

Teach | Will | Work |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Contain or repress their desires, this n ' is not the fight with obstinacy.

Love |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

It will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.

Love | Nothing | Warning | World |

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 |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

I can do what I want, but the trouble is that I do not quite know what to do.

Enjoyment | Love | Man | Pain | Pleasure | Sense |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

The love is huge, it is not infinite.

Love |

Eugen Herrigel

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Aims | Art | Awareness | Experience | Individual | Meaning | Means | Mind | Nothing | Power | Practice | Present | Reflection | Spirit | Work | Art | Awareness |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you anymore. ItÂ’s the foghorn I hate. It won't let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.

Little | Love | Will |

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

Without doubt it is natural to include that love long what we love so much.

Love | Man | Melancholy | Pain | Pleasure | Sense |

Eudora Welty

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books. I must have been what any author would consider an ideal reader. I felt every pain and pleasure suffered or enjoyed by all the characters. Oh, but I identified!

Beauty | Day | Love | Story | Beauty |