This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. Compassion in the first instance is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
It is impossible to spoil a child under the age of eighteen months with too much love and attention.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgment.
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Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
They are too busy being to notice what their neighbors are doing.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
We can become involved in many acts of social service, according to our resources, without ever moving one inch from the center of our private interests; in fact, the very act of social service typically enhances self-image and self-centeredness. But we cannot become involved in true social action, which strikes at the roots of problems in the society and in the human psyche, without moving away from ego-centered motivation. We must look deep into the network of personal motivations and discover what our priorities are. Our yearning for peace must be so urgent that we are willing to free ourselves from the immaturity of ego-centered action, willing to grow into the sane maturity required to face the complex challenges that affect our existence. If we are motivated by desire for acceptance either by the dominant culture or the counterculture, clarity of right action and passion of precise purpose will not be there. We may be praised for our contributions, but unless there is a deep awareness of the essence of our lives, a penetrating clarity about the meaning of human existence, our contributions will not penetrate to the roots of human misery.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.
Anger | Belief | Desire | Knowing | Love | Mind | Nothing | Passion | Peace | Truth |
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
That she held herself well was true; and had nice hands and feet; and dressed well, considering that she spent little. But often now this body she wore (she stopped to look at a Dutch picture), this body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing - nothing at all. She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street, this being Mrs. Dalloway, not even Clarissa anymore; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway.
Anger | Giving | Life | Life | Man | Necessity | Pain | Size | Writing |
Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
He utters empty words, he utters sound without mind.
He looked like a caryatid on vacation; he was supporting nothing but his daydreams.
The mother shall sleep, the father shall sleep, the dog shall sleep, the lord of the house shall sleep. All her relations shall sleep, and these people round about shall sleep.
Herbs (medicines),while descending down from heaven to earth proclaimed those who eat us, are never destroyed.
We should acquire power and strength so that we could vanquish our enemies and enjoy a long life full of happiness and prosperity and face death without fear.
Beauty may leave the moon, Himavaan may become bereft of snow, the ocean may transgress its shores but I will never violate the promise given by my father.
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
All good and wise advisors, we should not be unfilial disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha.
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