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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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Man | Success | Wants |

Felix Frankfurter

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Equality | Inequality |

George Herbert

Who goes to bed and does not pray,maketh two nights to every day.

George Horace Lorimer

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Determination |

John Henry Newman, aka Cardinal Newman and Blessed John Henry Newman

Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose.

Family | God | Man | Reform | Sin | World | God |

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability. She is their earth. She is the one they can count on for the things that matter most of all. She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter; she is the one they want to be near when they cry. She is the only person in the whole world in a whole lifetime who can be these things to her children. There is no substitute for her.

Children | Good | Health | Mother | Trust | World |

Leo Busacaglia

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

Comfort | Life | Life | Tomorrow |

Margaret Sanger, fully Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee

The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order.

Influence | Marriage |

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Light |

Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh

Before you go to bed each night, sit for a short time and review the day. See what you are becoming. Do you like the trend of your life? If not, change it. By self-analysis and constant watching of all your actions and thoughts and moods, you will gradually learn your true nature and how to express if flawlessly.

Change | Nature | Time | Will | Learn |

Paulo Coelho

If you saw a person he has left little time in life, and decided to spend the time sitting next to the bed one of them, watching a man falls asleep, they say that love is what went through, and that injured person a heart attack at this time, the necessary place of quiet just to stay near the man, he say that this love for such a great capacity for growth… If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Capacity | Energy | Good | Heart | Little | Love | Man | Quiet | Soul | Time |

P.D. Ouspensky, fully Peter Demianovich Ouspensky, also Pyotr Demianovich Ouspenskii, also Uspenskii or Uspensky

When one realizes that one deceives oneself, that one is asleep and one's house is on fire, always, permanently on fire, and that it is only by accident that the fire has not reached one's room at this very moment, when one realizes this, one will want to make efforts to awake and one will not expect any special reward. Since we do not realize that our house is on fire we always expect a special reward. What can one do in sleep? One can only have different dreams -- bad dreams, good dreams, but in the same bed. The dreams may be different, but the bed is the same.

Accident | Dreams | Good | Will |

Peter Ustinov, fully Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Conversation | Problems |

Philip Doddridge

The difference between rising at five and seven o'clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to ten additional years to a man's life.

Man | Space |

Rachel Naomi Remen

There is a fundamental paradox here. The less we are attached to life, the more alive we can become. The less we have preferences about life, the more deeply we can experience and participate in life. This is not to say that I don't prefer raisin toast to blueberry muffins. It is to say that I don't prefer raisin toast so much that I am unwilling to get out of bed unless I can have raisin toast, or that the absence of raisin toast ruins the whole day. Embracing life may be more about tasting than it is about either raisin toast or blueberry muffins. More about trusting one's ability to take joy in the newness of the day and what it may bring. More about adventure than having your own way.

Ability | Absence | Adventure | Day | Experience | Joy | Life | Life | Paradox |

Ramakrishna, aka Ramakrishna Paramhamsa or Sri Ramakrishna, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay NULL

Give God the power of attorney. Let Him do whatever He wants. Be like a kitten and cry to Him with a fervent heart. The mother cat puts the kitten wherever she wants to. The kitten doesn't know anything. It is left sometimes on the bed and sometimes near the hearth.

God | Mother | Power | Wants | God |

Ray Bradbury, fully Ray Douglas Bradbury

I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry.

Thinking |

Ray Bradbury, fully Ray Douglas Bradbury

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like old faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

Old |

Ray Bradbury, fully Ray Douglas Bradbury

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Day | Rest |

Raymond Radiguet

A careless man who will soon die but there is no presumption of has suddenly starts to set things in order. His life changes. He arranges his papers. He rises early, goes to bed early. With his sinful life is the past. His environment is happy. And it seems his cruel death all the more unjust.

Death | Life | Life | Man | Presumption | Will |