This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We two make banquets of the plainest fare in every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure we two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure.
Love |
The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, the headstones thicken along the way; and life grows sadder, but love grows stronger for those who walk with us day by day.
Love |
The longer I live and the more I see of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, the stronger this truth comes home to me: that the Universe rests on the shoulders of love; a love so limitless, deep, and broad, that men have renamed it and called it--God.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
I hold it true that thoughts are things endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, and that we send them forth to fill the world with good results--or ill.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
Love |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.
Love |
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
They say of me, and so they should, it's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends accumulating dividends and making enviable names in science, art and parlor games. But I, despite expert advice, keep doing things I think are nice, and though to good I never come inseparable my nose and thumb.
Art | Battle | Giving | Little | Love | Thinking | Work | Art |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could read. Oh, all the books are about people who love each other, truly and sweetly. What do they want to write about that for? Don't they know it isn't true? Don't they know it's a lie, it's a God-damned lie? What do they have to tell about that for, when they know how it hurts?
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.
Love |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
Since the Bible is a divine revelation, every single part of it is divine. Anything that comes from the divine could be no other way. Everything that comes from the divine goes down through the heavens all the way to people on earth. In heaven it is adapted to the wisdom of the angels there, and on earth it is adapted to the understanding of the people there. So the Bible has an inner, spiritual meaning for angels and an outer, material-level meaning for people on earth. That is why our connection to heaven happens through the Bible.
The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.
Love |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord is the good of love and the truth of faith, the angels are angels and are heaven in the measure in which they receive good and truth from the Lord.
Love |
Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
Love |
I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that anymore.