This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
O great soul, he who, taking his stand on pure knowledge, thus regards and honours all beings as myself, who has the same attitude towards a low born one as to a Brahmana, towards a thief as to a supporter of the Brahmanas, towards a spark of fire as to the sun, and towards a ruffian as to a kind man; he is considered sage.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves. - But they cannot bear leveling up to themselves. - They would all have some people under them. - Why not then have some people above them?
Every child is musical. Unfortunately this natural gift is squelched before it has time to develop. From my all life experience I remember being laughed at because my voice and the words I sang didn't please someone. My second grade teacher, Miss Stone would not let me sing with the rest of the class because she judged my voice as not musical and she said I threw the class off key. I believed her which led to the blockage of my appreciation of music and blocked my ability to write poetry. Fortunately at the age of 57 I had a significant emotional event which unblocked my ability to composed poetry which many people believe have lyrical qualities.
Awareness | Behavior | Better | Choice | Consequences | Expectation | Giving | Important | Opportunity | People | Reason | Receive | Will | Awareness | Expectation |
Shunryu Suzuki, also Daisetsu Teitaro or D.T. Suzuki or Suzuki-Roshi
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is in pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Simcha Zissel of Kelm, fully Rabbi imcha Zissel Ziv Broida, aka the Elder of Kelm
Logical and rational thinking shows us that since it is impossible for a person to save himself from the difficulties and misfortunes of life, it makes sense to accept them with a positive attitude. This ensures a person a happy life.
Better | Enjoyment | Giving | Good | Habit | Pleasure | Will |
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Action | Better | Consideration | Folly | Force | Giving | Heaven | History | Humanity | Individual | Inevitable | Law | Life | Life | Man | Means | Men | Power | Question | Relationship | Right | Sacrifice | Servitude | Time |
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principal motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
It is vain to apportion praise and blame. The truth is that if the vicious circle is so hard to break, it is because the two sexes are each the victim at once of the other and of itself. Between two adversaries confronting each other in their pure liberty, an agreement could be easily reached: the more so as the war profits neither. But the complexity of the whole affair derives from the fact that each camp is giving aid and comfort to the enemy; woman is pursuing a dream of submission, man a dream of identification. Want of authenticity does not pay: each blames the other for the unhappiness he or she has incurred in yielding to the temptations of the easy way; what man and woman loathe in each other is the shattering frustration of each one's own bad faith and baseness.
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.
Aid | Authenticity | Comfort | Faith | Giving | Man | Praise | Truth | Unhappiness | War | Woman | Yielding | Victim |
Anthony Hope, fully Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
I have no one to whom I can talk upon such matters. I am all driven inwards, and thought turns sour when one lets it stagnate like that.
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