This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of other; it is in yourself alone.
Chance | Luck | Opportunity | Luck |
Ken Robinson, fully Sir Kenneth Robinson
Life is not linear; it's organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to circumstances they help create for us.
Circumstances | Life | Life | Organic |
Ben Stein, fully Benjamin Jeremy "Ben" Stein
We are not responsible for the operation of the universe, and what happens to us is not terribly important. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human being.
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.
Abigail Van Buren, pen name for Pauline Phillips and now daughter Jeanne Phillips
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper!
Religion |
Philosophy may help to cleanse our thinking, but only in experience itself, in stumbling through life and reflecting about our moments of joy and despair, can we learn how to live.
Despair | Experience | Joy | Life | Life | Philosophy | Thinking | Learn |
The ultimate dread occurs when we confront nothing. In the face of nothing, no thing and no being can help us; it is at that moment when we experience existential isolation in its fullness.
Dread | Experience | Isolation | Nothing |
Adulthood offered two basic choices: either to help life in its wildness and unfolding, or to resist life by choosing security and routine.
Government must be the trustee for the little man because no one else will be. The powerful can usually help themselves – and frequently do.
Government | Little | Man | Will |