This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
Once people understand that change is a process--a developmental progression with distinct steps to move through--then our capacity to alter behavior is quite impressive. It is a marathon, not a 100-yard dash.
Behavior | Capacity | Change | People | Understand |
In our modern society, in which knightly virtues are for the most part lacking, romanticizing the folklore heralding the virtues of friendship, trust, and heroism is understandable. I firmly believe that if the values held by the mythical knight in shining armor who stood up for right and good were followed or embodied today, they could in fact change the world.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Change | Good | Knowledge | Reality | Universe | World | Poem |
Anyone can become part of the critical mass that offers us a chance of improving the world before it is too late. You can rethink your goals and question what you are doing with your life. If your present way of living does not stand up against an impartial standard of value, then you can change it.
Chance | Change | Goals | Life | Life | Present | Question | World |
Kindness [has the] power to create change, to make things happen. And in a period of human history in which we are obsessed with change - personal or political - and are unsure whether it is possible at all, kindness could be our salvation.
To see what students learn in school, look at how they leave school. If they leave thinking that reading and writing are difficult and pointless, that mathematics is confusing, that history is irrelevant, and that art is a bore, then that is what they have been taught. People learn what is demonstrated to them, and this reality will not change to suit the convenience of politicians and educations administrators.
Art | Change | History | Mathematics | People | Reading | Reality | Thinking | Will | Writing | Art | Learn |
If a higher ethical consciousness spreads, it will utterly change the society in which we live.
Change | Consciousness | Society | Will | Society |
There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Change |
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Paul Wellstone, fully Paul David Wellstone
The motivating force for change has to come from an energized, empowered public.
If you want to bring a difficult relationship into the light of love, make up your mind to change your image of who both of you are.
Change | Light | Love | Mind | Relationship |