This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which we think we cannot.
Confidence | Courage | Experience | Fear | Strength | Think |
Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
Achmad Sukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear – fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Danger | Fear | Future | Life | Life | Man | Men | World | Danger |
Our power to think things out about human nature… is liable to be blocked by our fear of the full implication of what we find.
Fear | Human nature | Nature | Power | Think |
It is our fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.
Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn't. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. When our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our minds.
Attention | Control | Fear | Guarantee | Life | Life | People | Present | Time | Tomorrow | Will |
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
Body | Death | Fear | God | Individual | Reflection | God |
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.