This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Laurence J. Peter, fully Laurence Johnston Peter
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Change | Conduct | Destiny | Life | Life | Nobility | Power | Thought | Happiness | Thought |
Lothair I, aka Lotharius I, "Emperor of the West" NULL
All things are changed, and we change with them.
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At moments of crisis, where the roads to disintegration or to development separate, as on a watershed, a single decisive personality, or a small group of informed and purposeful men, may be a slight push determine the direction and movement of an otherwise uncontrollable mass of conflicting social forces… Only within the compass of the person can a total change be affected within the span of a single generation, sufficient to produce the necessary effect on civilization at large: like the seed crystal, he passes on to the whole new order of the part.
Change | Civilization | Men | Order | Personality |
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time."
Change | Obligation | Time | World |
Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim
Acting and becoming are one. God and I are one in this work: He acts and I become. Fire transforms all things it touches into its own nature. The wood does not change the fire itself, but the fire changes the wood into itself. In the same way we are transformed into God so that we may know him as he is.
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better. For instance, feeling secure is an important component of happiness... risks are inevitable.
Better | Change | Experience | Goals | Important | Inevitable | Life | Life |
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Change | Experience | Need | Technology | World |
Michael Jackson, fully Michael Joseph Jackson, aka MJ or King of Pop
I'm starting with the man in the mirror. I'm asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer: If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and working actively to change the evidence.
Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
Emotions and actions do not usually follow adversity directly. Rather, they issue directly from your beliefs about adversity. This means that if you change your mental response to adversity, you can cope with setbacks much better.