This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lucretia Mott, fully Lucretia Coffin Mott
My conviction led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth for authority, not on authority for truth.
Madame Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Mothe Guyon
It is only by the death of self that the soul can enter into Divine Truth, and understand in part what is the light that shineth in darkness.
Death | Light | Self | Soul | Understand |
Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, aka Maud or L.M. Montgomery
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
Age | Children | Day | Gold | Light | People | Tragedy | World | Blessed | Old |
Lyndon Johnson, fully Lyndon Baines Johnson, aka LBJ
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
M. C. Swabey, fully Marie Taylor Collins Swabey
While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.
Events | Giving | Important | Light | Men | Past | Present | Time |
Margaret Thatcher, fully Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, née Roberts
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has ben shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.
Marcel Marceau, born Marcel Mangel
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
Marcel Proust, fully Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower. You didn't have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else's on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They're all different without trying to be. As long as they're unselfconsciously being themselves, they can't help but shine. It's only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better than others, that their natural light becomes distorted.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Children | Darkness | Fear | Glory | God | Light | Nothing | People | God | Child |
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.
Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier
It all boils down to instinct, good or bad. Artistic creation must be spontaneous. It comes from the heart; it has to pass through the brain; and still one needs the guts, and good old, indispensable technique, to bring it to the light of day. That, at least, is how I see the process, not that I have ever been able to pin it down very exactly in my own case. You hear a voice inside. You obey it, and produce whatever it told you to produce; and then you wait and see. And oh! The trouble you're in for.
Good | Indispensable | Light | Trouble |
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
Mary Kay Ash, fully Mary Kathlyn Wagner Ash
Courage is confidence. No matter how dark night may be, courage always finds the light and the promise of a distant star.