Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be mis-appraised.

Fear | Gold | Good | Hope | People | Time | Afraid |

Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

Fear | Gold | Money | Right | Will |

Washington Irving

If... I can by any lucky chance, in these days of evil, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sorrow; if I can now and then penetrate through the gathering film of misanthropy, prompt a benevolent view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow beings and himself, surely, surely, I shall not then have written entirely in vain.

Conquest | Custom | Fear | Will |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.

Doubt | Experience | Fear |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Every fall that you take is a gift, and every relapse is a glorious opportunity — after all, without them you can’t manifest the energy to get to a higher place.

Comfort | Death | Fear | Past | Right |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

How are you today? Better than yesterday. That's a good way to be; not better than anyone else, just better than you were.

Fear | Time |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Have you ever noticed when you’re in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You’ll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.

Evidence | Faith | Fear | God | God |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

Your friends are God's way of apologizing for your relatives.

Fear |

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

The picturing process is the way to create a prosperity consciousness within your mind. No one can ever take that away from you.

Courage | Fear |

Wayne Muller

Equanimity is the ability to experience the changes in our lives, circumstances, and feelings and still remain calm, centered and unmoved. The image most often used to illustrate the quality of equanimity is that of a mountain. The mountain sits there as the sun shines on it, the rain drenches it, it is covered with snow and struck by lightning. Through it all, through all the changing conditions, the mountain remains unwavering. As we cultivate equanimity within ourselves, we learn to be more like the mountain, finding that place of strength and courage within ourselves that enables us to withstand the slings and arrows of being human without feeling overwhelmed by fear.

Fear |

Wendell Berry

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Curiosity | Fear | Feelings | Little | Will |

Wendell Berry

The people didn't really want to be saints of self-deprivation and hatred of the world. They knew that the world would sooner or later deprive them of all it had given them, but still they liked it.

Beauty | Despair | Fear | Forethought | Grace | Life | Life | Peace | Rest | Sound | Time | Waiting | World | Beauty |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

Anger | Fear | Afraid |

Wendell Berry

The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am finding it a little hard to say that I felt them resting there, but I did. I felt their completeness as whatever they had been in the world.

Bible | Body | Fear | Grief | Harmony | Sense | Soul | Spirit | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Work | World | Bible | Thought |

W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

But in my arms till break of day let the living creature lie, mortal, guilty, but to me the entirely beautiful.

Fear | Poetry | Writing |

W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone

To be happy, make other people happy.

Action | Fear | Will |

Walker Percy

Unlike him I had been unable to escape into the simple complexities of science. All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life...(How happy scientists are! Why didn't we become scientists, Percival? They confront problems which can be solved. We don't know what we confront. Does it have a name?)

Earth | Father | Fear | Good | Knowing | Men | Nothing | People | Will | Think |

Walker Percy

What does a man live for but to have a girl, use his mind, practice his trade, drink a drink, read a book, and watch the martins wing it for the Amazon and the three-fingered sassafras turn red in October?

Fear | Giving | God | Ignorance | Object | Pleasure | Question | Search | Wants | God |

Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson

Darling, I thought of nothing mean; I thought of killing straight and clean. You're safe; that's gone, that wild caprice, but tell me once before I cease, which does your Church esteem the kinder role, to kill the body or destroy the soul?

Authority | Fear | Reason |