This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"
The alternative to recalling and interpreting dreams is not always pleasant. Individuals cannot expect to drift forever. If they do not puzzle out their identity, and the direction of their lives by the aid of their dreams, then they may be brought, by the relentless action of their own pent-up souls, into some crisis which requires that they come to terms with themselves. It may be a medical crisis. It may be the end of a marriage or of a job. It may be depression or withdrawal.
Action | Aid | Depression | Dreams | Marriage | Wisdom | Crisis |
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
It is not marriage that fails: it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Consciousness | Individual | Marriage | Pain | Relationship | Wisdom |
Stanley Kunitz, fully Stanley Jasspon Kunitz
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.
André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
André Maurois, born born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems to be too short.
Conversation | Happy | Marriage | Wisdom |
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Perry F. Webb, fully Perry Flynt Webb or Perry Flint Webb
The home... is the lens through which we get our first look at marriage and all civic duties; it is the clinic where, by conversation and attitude, impressions are created with respect to sobriety and reverence; it is the school where lessons of truth or falsehood, honesty or deceit are learned; it is the mold which ultimately determines the structure of society.
Conversation | Deceit | Falsehood | Honesty | Marriage | Respect | Reverence | Society | Truth | Wisdom | Respect |
What makes a marriage is the consent of the partners, their serious intention to live together in some sense, however dimly perceived, as “one flesh,” a union of their two separate existences into still a third existence, the marriage itself… The question of external status is entirely and altogether unnecessary.
The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, pen name Amanda Cross
Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
Reuel Howe, fully Reuel Lanphier Howe
Much marriage difficulty and unhappiness are due to the failure of the partners to accept the fact of their finiteness and its meaning. Instead, they hold themselves up to ideals of performance possible only to God.
Difficulty | Failure | God | Ideals | Marriage | Meaning | Unhappiness | Failure |