This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Humility is the most excellent natural cure for anger in the world, for he, that by daily considering his own infirmities and failings, makes the error of his servant or neighbor to be his own case, and remembers that he daily needs God’s pardon and his brother’s charity, will not be apt to rage at the levities, or misfortunes, or indiscretions of another.
Anger | Charity | Error | God | Humility | Pardon | Rage | Will | World |
This day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. But if we look abroad and brings into one day's thoughts the evil of many, certain and uncertain, what will be and what will never be, our load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable.
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
All human history from the earliest times to our own day may be considered as a movement of consciousness both of individuals and of homogeneous groups from lower ideas to higher ones.
Consciousness | Day | History | Ideas |
Angus Wilson, fully Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, avarice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.
Anger | Appetite | Avarice | Effort | Envy | Fear | Gluttony | Lust | Power | Pride | Self | Sloth |
When it comes to more complex behavior mathematics has never in fact done well at explaining most of what we see every day in nature.
Behavior | Day | Mathematics | Nature |
Each day you have the opportunity to change yourself. What have you done today?
Change | Day | Opportunity |
Chief Crazy Horse, Tȟašúŋke Witkó meaning literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited"
Today is a good day to die.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
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The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.