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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Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Ability | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Money | Nothing | Price | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I thought I paid for everything. Not like women, pay and pay and pay. There is not a reward or punishment. Just exchange of values. Something comparable to, and in return you get something else. Or work for the sake of something. Anyway after all, at least partially good pay. Much of what I was paying, like me, and I had a good time. You pay either the knowledge or experience, or risk, or money. Enjoy life is nothing like the ability to get something equivalent expended money and realize it. And to get the full price for your money you can. Our world - a solid company. Excellent as a theory. In five years, I thought, it seems to me the same stupid, like all my other superior theory.

Good | Joy | Life | Life | Money | Order | Reward | Thought | Work | World | Worth | Learn | Thought |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.

Past | Thought | Time | Thought |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

One of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. The illusionÂ…is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which it has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.

Change | Experience | Ideas | Thought | Thought |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Gold | Good | Right | Thought | Think | Thought |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom. It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace. Every increase in needs tends to increase one's dependence on outside forces over which one cannot have control, and therefore increases existential fear. Only by a reduction of needs can one promote a genuine reduction in those tensions which are the ultimate causes of strife and war.

Attention | Economics | People | Problems | System | Thinking | Thought | Will | Wisdom | Thought |

E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.

Fault | Method | Money | Price | Self-deception | Thought | Fault | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

All you gotta do is chill out... Let go of control and chill out...Let it be, trust.

Belief | Thought | Thought |

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Thought | Will | Intellect | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Anything you are giving your attention to is an invitation to the essence of it. Saying 'I want money, but it will not come,' is the same as saying, 'come to me, absence of money, which I do not want.'

Belief | Reason | Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The discipline that we would like you to exercise is to make a decision that nothing is more important than that you feel good, and that you are going to find thoughts that feel better.

Receive | Thought | Will | Child | Thought | Value |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Law | Thought | Think | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

The child is vibrationally receiving your fears, your beliefs, even without your spoken word. If you want to do that which is of greatest value for your child, give thought only to that which you want, and your child will receive only those wanted thoughts.

Day | Reason | Thinking | Thought | Child | Parent | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.

Means | Opposition | Thought | Thought |

Ethiopian Proverbs

Because he killed his wife he took shelter with his in-laws.

Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

You are the creator of your own life experience, and as the creator of your experience, it is important to understand that it is not by virtue of your action, not by virtue of your doing, it is not even by virtue of what you are saying that you are creating. You are creating by virtue of the thought that you are offering.

Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

When your heart is singing, you are allowing Well-being. When you are appreciating, you are allowing Well-being.

Justify | Thought | Wrong | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

What anyone else has or does not have, has nothing to do with you.

Beginning | Thought | Thought |

Ester and Jerry Hicks

Your hands are tied in action, but your hands are not tied in imagination and everything springs forth from the imagination. Everything.

Action | Choice | Thought | Thought |

Eudora Welty

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

Character | Good | Pleasure | Speech | Thought | World | Think | Thought |