This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Saints are persons who make it easier for others to believe in God.
Truth is not always the best basis for happiness... There are people who perish when their eyes are open.
Ways of the Righteous, fully The Ways of Righteousness NULL
Approval-seeking destroys one’s good deeds. Instead of doing the proper thing for its own sake, an approval-seeker will always focus on how others will react to what he is doing... Flattering wrongdoers is the root of much harm. It can lead to others emulating their misdeeds.
Usually people are not envious of someone’s virtues, but of the honor the person receives for his virtues.
Brooks Atkinson, fully Justin Brooks Atkinson
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one every thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Age | Good | Myth | People | Thought | Time | Wisdom | Old | Thought |
Regardless of where a person actually is physically, he is really where his thoughts are. A person constantly has a choice to think elevated and uplifting thoughts or negative, self-destructive thoughts. How old you feel is greatly dependent on your attitude about yourself. Elderly people can increase their vitality and vigor by considering themselves young.
How many people ever consider that the lack of certain qualities - such as balance, common sense, tranquillity - affect the physical state of the human body?... Did you ever hear of people being sick because they hated someone? This is not uncommon.
Balance | Body | Character | Common Sense | People | Qualities | Sense | Tranquility |
Brooke Astor, (née Russell, previously Kuser and Marshall) also known as Mrs Vincent Astor
It was not until I was forty that I was able to go into a room and say to myself, 'What do I think of these people?' Before that, I always thought, 'What do these people think of me?'
R. C. Allen, fully Robert Cameron Allen
Prejudice is thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant.
I have sometimes a queer mystical feeling as regards the attitude of people in general. Just as there are physical diseases, so there are diseases of feelings. In a little town like this I feel that on some days everyone goes about hating everyone else. Then something happens and a good feeling comes back. I think the whole of mankind must be like that.
Feelings | Good | Little | Mankind | Mystical | People | Wisdom | Think |
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all the others - his last breath.