This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.
Eternal | Evolution | God | History | Humanity | Ideas | Individual | Longing | Means | Need | Nothing | Order | Peace | Providence | Right | Sacred | Search | Spirit | Story | Thinking | Thought | Will | Wonder | God | Think | Thought |
Elizabeth Janeway, born Elizabeth Ames Hall
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
Therefore I am sure did this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor did are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex.
Ellen Key, fully Ellen Karolina Sofia Key
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?
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In the pathway of the sun, in the footsteps of the breeze, where the world and sky are one, he shall ride the silver seas, he shall cut the glittering wave. I shall sit at home, and rock; rise, to heed a neighbor's knock; brew my tea, and snip my thread; bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave.
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Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Experience | History |
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy... It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.
Crime | Duty | History | Insult | Justice | Society | Suffering | Truth | Insult | Society |
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.