This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Peace among nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.
True happiness springs from moderation.
Moderation | Wisdom | Happiness |
John Oliver Hobbes, Pseud. for Mrs. Pearlmary-Teresa Craigie
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?
Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider’d as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of the thought to pass from causes to effects and from effects to causes, according to their experienc’d union.
Determination | Mind | Necessity | Nothing | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of it causes the least to take on the magnitude of complexity.
Simplicity | Understanding | Wisdom |
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Notwithstanding the empire of the imagination, there is a secret tie or union among particular ideas, which causes the mind to conjoin them more frequently together, and makes the one, upon its appearance, introduce the other... These principles of association are reduced to three, viz. Resemblance... Contiguity... Causation... as it is by means of thought only that any thing operates upon our passions, and as these are only ties of our thought, they are really to us the cement of the universe, and all the operations of the mind must, in a great measure, depend on them.
Appearance | Association | Ideas | Imagination | Means | Mind | Principles | Thought | Universe | Wisdom | Association | Thought |
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.