Great Throughts Treasury

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Padmasambhava, literally "Lotus-Born",aka "Second Buddha", better known as Guru Rinpoche (lit. "Precious Guru") or Lopon Rinpoche NULL

You may pursue worldly fame and gain, but unless you follow the teachings of the Buddha, such activity will only be the cause for throwing you back into further samsara. So adhere to the teachings of the Buddha!

Death | Power | Time | World |

Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL

From dispassion (vairagya) there is absorption into Nature (prakriti); transmigration results from passionate attachment (rajas); from power there is non-obstruction, and from the reverse, the contrary.

Body | Nature | Power | Purpose | Purpose | Self |

Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL

From primary matter (prakriti) comes Intellect (mahat), thence egoism (ahankara), and from this the set of sixteen; from five among these come the five elements.

Nature | Power |

Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

Earth | Power | Rest | Truth |

Edwin Arlington Robinson

The world is a spiritual kindergarten where bewildered infants are trying to spell GOD with the wrong blocks.

Power | Wisdom |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

I can understand J. Edgar Hoover, because he wasn't inaccurate.… He said that we were the main threat. We were trying to be the main threat. We were trying to be the vanguard organization. J. Edgar Hoover was an adversary, but he had good information. We were plugged into all of the revolutionary groups in America, plus those abroad. We were working hand-in-hand with communist parties here and around the world, and he knew that.

Aggression | Meaning | People | Power | Will |

Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver

The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

Power |

Elif Safak

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Attention | Light | Mistake | Obedience | Power | Will | World | Teacher |

Elihu Root

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Authority | Conduct | Conformity | Control | Counsel | Force | Man | Nations | Power | Right | Counsel |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

Force | Power |

Eleanora Duse, aka Duse

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Nature | Power | Soul |

Elif Safak

Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.

Change | Contentment | Daughter | Day | Life | Life | Light | Looks | Mind | Nothing | People | Power | Regret | Safe | Time | Will | Wonder | Wrong | Think |

Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.

Bravery | Courage | Power | Strength | Thought | Thought |

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Effort | Men | Mob | Occupation | Organization | Past | Power | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Work |

Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole

If we choose life and liberty, compassion and service, character and faith, we will honor those who came before us, and inspire the children of tomorrow.

Power |

William Shakespeare

So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.

Power |

William Shakespeare

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly.

Birth | Power | Spirit |

William Shakespeare

Such it is as are those dulcet sounds in break of day that creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear and summon him to marriage.

Distinguish | Evil | God | Good | Noise | Power | Present | God |

Elizabeth Gilbert

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Control | Life | Life | Need | Power | Work | Trouble | Learn |

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Knowing | Power | Race | Struggle | Will | Old |