This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Acceptance | Enough | Events | Gratitude | Important | Life | Life | Order | Past | Peace | Problems | Sense | Success | Tomorrow | Vision |
Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
Vision |
James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras
A well-conceived vision consists of two major components; core ideology and envisioned future.
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Action | Beauty | Dawn | Day | Existence | Glory | Growth | Hope | Life | Life | Tomorrow | Vision |
Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Ambition | Character | Experience | Quiet | Soul | Success | Suffering | Vision | Ambition | Trial |
You vision is not big enough unless people are falling over laughing.
Stephen Sondheim, fully Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution.
Vision |
The development of human personality is the ultimate purpose of civilization.
Civilization | Personality | Purpose | Purpose |
Cynic: n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Religion is the vision of something that stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehensions, something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.
Moral education is impossible without the habitual vision of greatness.