Great Throughts Treasury

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Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Of course, one must love all mankind; all are children of God. One must not emphasize the differences between Nations or between castes and creeds. Cultivate Universal heartfelt Love.

Strength |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

If your wish is fulfilled, you revere Me; if it is not, you revile Me. That is how Desire debases you.

Happy | Listening | Strength | Will | Wishes |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

I am a sacrifice to my True Guru. He shall not abandon me; He shall surely carry me across.

Qualities | Self-improvement | Strength |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

We should always be ready to work diligently.

Death | Life | Life | Power | Prosperity | Strength | Happiness |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Truth is eternal and prevails ultimately.

Good | Life | Life | Strength |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

You must be uncomfortable when those around you are unhappy; when you ease their discomfort, you are making them happy and making yourself happy, isn't it?

Men | People | Praise | Strength | Weakness |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

And none could cry Murder, but only Justice done.

Change | Courage | Fear | Good | Greed | People | Strength |

Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin

The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing.

Evolution | Existence | Law | Strength |

Václav Havel

The relationship to the world that the modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted its potential. It is increasingly clear that, strangely, the relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic nature of reality and with natural human experience. It is now more of a source of disintegration and doubt than a source of integration and meaning. It produces what amounts to a state of schizophrenia: Man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being.

Culture | Happy | People | Revolution | Society | Strength | Trust | Wonder | World | Society |

Valmiki NULL

Grief destroys one’s courage. It destroys one’s learning. It destroys one’s everything. There is no enemy greater than grief.

Nothing | Strength | World |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Body | Strength |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

Body | Order | Strength |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

If people did not complement one another there would be little society.

Boldness | Passion | Strength |

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

Death | Strength | Weakness |

Toyohiko Kagawa

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.

God | Life | Life | Strength | God | Child |

Tryon Edwards

The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.

Body | Health | Religion | Strength |

Tryon Edwards

Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

Need | Strength | Old |

Tryon Edwards

He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow

Courage | Giving | Good | Men | Resolution | Strength | Will | Wise |