This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Patience does not mean indifference. We may work and trust and wait, but we ought not to be idle or careless while waiting.
Indifference | Patience | Trust | Waiting | Work |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person's own breast. Trust thyself.
Intuition | People | Right | Sense | Trust | Wisdom | Wise |
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
I repeat … that all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
All power is a trust - that we re accountable for its exercise.
Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them.
Individual | Responsibility | Trust |
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
When young, we trust ourselves too much and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.
Action | Age | Caution | Error | Hope | Little | Rashness | Trust | Youth |
Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Individual | Responsibility | Trust |
When someone praises you, be judge alone: trust not men's judgment of you, but your own.
Dialogue, trust and collaboration rooted in humanitarian competition, a competition in self-mastery - this is the basis on which a global society can be built, a global civilization for the twenty-first century.
Civilization | Competition | Global | Self | Self-mastery | Society | Trust | Society |
Dan Millman, born Daniel Jay Millman
Rest your mind in the eternal present, but open your eyes to the highest possibilities of your life path. Trust the process of your life, keep your sense of humor, and, above all, remember that is never too late to experience the life you were born to live.
Eternal | Experience | Humor | Life | Life | Mind | Present | Rest | Sense | Trust |
Dennis Genpo Merzel, aka Genpo Merzel Roshi
To begin with, it is just One Mind, all One; then we generate all the boundaries and definitions. As soon as we define ourselves in relation to another we feel more comfortable, because now we know how to be and to act. To go into a situation completely ignorant of our role is very scary. We really have to trust ourselves then. But how can we trust if we do not know who we are? So we fall back on some definition of ourselves and put our trust in that... We lose our identity when we lose our definition. We do not realize it, but that is a wonderful, extraordinary happening, because for a time we are free of our boundaries. For a moment we are nobody, but that is just too frightening. So in order to grab on to some definition, a false sense of security and comfort, what do we do right away? We get into another relationship. At least in relationship, even if it is not working for us, we know who we are.
Comfort | Mind | Order | Relationship | Right | Security | Sense | Time | Trust |
Elton Trueblood, fully David Elton Trueblood
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.
Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
This is what I found out about religion. It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Confidence | Courage | God | Man | Power | Religion | Repose | Responsibility | Trust | God |