This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Association | Beauty | Joy | Solitude | Association | Beauty |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.
Association | Beauty | Joy | Men | Nature | Solitude | Youth | Association | Youth | Beauty |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.
Joy |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
No, I don’t like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don’t like work – no man does – but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.
Desire | Man | Nothing | Passion | Rage | Sense | Happiness |
Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard
Live freshly every moment by seeing that mere thoughts about a past experience do not create a present reality.
Rage |
He was not willing for there to be any man on earth without a country.
Earth | Experience | Joy |
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash.
Intolerance | Rage |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity--even under the most difficult circumstances--to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
Bring hither by thy shouts, O lord of wealth, the suitor, bend his mind towards her; turn thou the right side of every agreeable suitor towards (her).
Anybody taking the above resolutions will naturally make efforts to fulfill them.
It is believed that the soul's attachment with the body remains until the dead-body is not destroyed completely.
Joy |
By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable.
Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL
Where there is separateness, one sees another, smells another, tastes another, speaks to another, hears another, touches another, thinks of another, knows another. But where there is unity, one without a second, that is the world of Brahman. This is the supreme goal of life, the supreme treasure, the supreme joy. Those who do not seek this Supreme goal live on but a fraction of this joy. - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
Capacity | Competition | Good | Guilt | Joy | Will | Work | Child |