Great Throughts Treasury

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Egyptian Proverbs

To seek without finding, equals waste of time.

Means | Understand |

Eileen Garrett

You will not mind if I say that where there is unhappiness in a house and there is an impression of someone [i.e. a departed spirit] coming back, it is because you make for that spirit a Garden of Memory in which it can live and revive its sufferings. Unless you are, consciously or unconsciously, in a state of mind in which this impression can vivify itself, you will not be troubled. Haven't you discovered that these things only happen to you when you are in a bad emotional state, physically or mentally disturbed? Don't you realize that you yourself vivify this memory?

Change | Consciousness | Control | Harmony | Life | Life | Means | Nature | Peace | Present | Regard | Time | Work |

Egyptian Proverbs

When thou journeyest into the shadows, take not sweetmeats with thee, but a seed of corn and a bottle of tears and wine; that thou mayst have a garden in the land whither thou go eat.

Means | Society | Society |

Eileen Garrett

Symbolism, with its inner feelings and impressions, is expressed with the same sensory aspects of the outer world's intensity and association. Symbolic dreaming is a survival that leads us from different cultures and different historical associations across centuries. It is still the language of the myth and fairy tale, and it is never forgotten in the unconscious, but too often its meanings are overlooked or not understood. In the symbolic dream, where time and space do not exist, we are linked with our earliest ancestors.

Life | Life | Means | Will |

Egyptian Proverbs

Trusting men is like trusting water in a sieve.

Consciousness |

Egyptian Proverbs

The man who knows how to lead one of his brothers towards what he has known may one day be saved by that very brother.

Man | Means | Plenty |

Elif Safak

Another rule that the pursuit of love. No one seeks behind only love and simmer During his trip, what The trip begins search for love even begin to change from home and abroad

Better | Existence | God | Heart | Means | Right | Will | God | Think |

Elif Safak

Patience is not to clench your teeth and do nothing. It means to be prescient enough to trust the end result of the process. What is patience? It means looking at the thorns and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so myopic as to see the result. Whoever loves God remains patient, because he knows that it takes time incomplete moon to be full.

Enough | God | Impatience | Means | Patience | Time | Trust | God |

Elif Safak

Fate does not mean that your life is destined. Therefore, it is a sign of complete ignorance to leave everything to fate and not contributing actively to the music of the universe. ... Your destiny - it is the level where you play your tune. Unlikely to change tools, but depends solely on how well you'll play.

Love | Means | Story | Friendship |

Elif Safak

Human beings tend to discredit the things he cannot understand for some reason.

Blame | Fear | God | Love | Means | Mind | Reflection | God |

Elias Canetti

It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.

Literature | Means | Object |

Eleanor Holmes Norton

The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices. You cannot even simply become a mother anymore. You must choose motherhood. Will you choose change? Can you become its vanguard?

Action | Land | People |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

Consciousness | Nothing |

Elif Safak

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

Blame | Compassion | Fear | God | Love | Means | Reflection | Will | God |

Eleazar ha-Kappar, alternate spelling Eliezer ha-Kappar

A person who deprives himself of health by injuring himself is considered a sinner.

Love | Means | Work |

Elif Safak

Perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

Enough | God | Impatience | Means | Time | Trust | God |

Elif Safak

Sometimes ... yaralanıveririz so suddenly. But every wound will heal itself. Eventually heals, top off. Stored in the eyes. Does not want to be seen because there is no wound. As long as they advocate the wound pupils. Because if pupils are injured, you cannot look the world in the same way ever again. You start to see the bad side of everything you look at. Contaminants that have remained hidden even run away from his eyes. Did not see things that other people feel the same anymore and you do not love them anymore. Uncomfortable. They cannot look you in the same way again. This is close to you, so no one wants to see. Picture the same image, in fact, changing your eyes. If you walk out the picture, everything remains as before, not everyone is comfortable. Personally, I think it is best to go in such situations. Top go to the top. Out of spite.

Consciousness | Duty | God | Individual | Morality | Rule | God | Learn |

Elihu Root

The old system of exploitation of colonies and the monopolization of their trade for the benefit of the mother country has practically disappeared.

Action | Argument | Conduct | Doctrine | Peace | Propaganda |

Albert Einstein

If you ask for the purpose or goal of society as a whole or of an individual taken as a whole the question loses its meaning. This is, of course, even more so if you ask the purpose or meaning of nature in general. For in those cases it seems quite arbitrary if not unreasonable to assume somebody whose desires are connected with the happenings.

Action | Consequences | Desire | Earnestness | Fulfillment | Individual | Life | Life | Mankind | Opinion | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Struggle |

Elihu Root

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

Intelligence | Law | Understanding | Will | Friends | Understand |