Great Throughts Treasury

"No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny. No situation repeats itself, and each situation calls for a different response." - Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

"Tears came to his eyes and I tried to comfort him. Then there was something else to do — to make my will: “Listen, Otto, if I don’t get back home to my wife, and if you should see her again, then tell her that I talked of her daily, hourly. You remember. Secondly, I have loved her more than anyone. Thirdly, the short time I have been married to her outweighs everything, even all we have gone through here.”" - Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl

"From his navel arose the air; from his head the heaven evolved; from his feet the earth; the [four] directions from his ear. Thus, they fashioned the worlds." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda

"Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty." - Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen

"Punish the evil and reward the good. This was the excellent rule of antiquity. Therefore do not hide the good qualities of others or fail to correct what is wrong when you see it. Flatterers and deceivers are a sharp weapon for the overthrow of the state, and a sharp sword for the destruction of the people. Men of this kind are never loyal to their lord, or to the people. All this is a source of serious civil disturbances." - Prince Shōtoku, born Shotoku Taishi, aka Prince Umayado or Prince Kamitsumiya

"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises." - Elizabeth Gilbert