Great Throughts Treasury

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Judy Tatelbaum

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. To work through and complete grief means to face our feelings openly and honestly, to express and release our feelings fully and to tolerate and accept our feeling for however long it takes for the wound to heal. We fear that once acknowledged grief will bowl us over. The truth is that grief experienced does dissolve. Grief unexpressed is grief that lasts indefinitely.

Attention | Character | Fear | Feelings | Grief | Means | Order | Truth | Will | Work |

Richard Whately

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Attention | Character | Curiosity | Memory | Parent |

Veda NULL

What I seem to be is just a certain quality of my attention to my Self.

Attention | Character | Self |

Yorah Daiah

It is especially important to express your feelings of joy when giving charity to a poor person. Show the person you are glad to be able to help him out. Showing displeasure giving charity erases the merit of giving.

Character | Charity | Feelings | Giving | Important | Joy | Merit |

Daniel Webster

Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.

Character | Circumstances | Education | Feelings | Knowledge | Morality | Motives |

Honoré de Balzac

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had my periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

Courage | Energy | Wisdom | Work | Happiness |

William Blake

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

Body | Energy | Eternal | Life | Life | Reason | Wisdom |

William Blake

War is energy Enslav'd.

Energy | War | Wisdom |

Loren B. Belker

Communicate downwards to subordinates with at least the same care and attention as you communicate upward to superiors

Attention | Care | Wisdom |

Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson

All life, animal and vegetable, seems in its essence like an effort to accumulate energy and then to let it flow into flexible channels, changeable in shape, at the end of which it will accomplish infinitely varied kinds of work. That is what the vital impetus, passing through matter, would fain do all at once. It would succeed, no doubt, if its power were unlimited, or if some reinforcement could come to it from without. But the impetus is finite, and it has been given once for all. It cannot overcome all obstacles. The movement it starts is sometimes turned aside, sometimes divided, always opposed; and the evolution of the organized world is the unrolling of this conflict.

Doubt | Effort | Energy | Evolution | Life | Life | Power | Will | Wisdom | Work | World |

Norman Bradburn

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

Absolute | Feelings | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.

Existence | Feelings | Reason | Teach | Wisdom |