This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is no need to be unhappy. There is no need to be sad. There is no need to be disappointed, or oppressed, or aggrieved. There is no need for illness or failure or discouragement. There is no necessity for anything but success, good health, prosperity, and an abounding interest and joy in life.
The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow. All pioneers of truth have been, and still are, reviled; they have been, and still are, persecuted. But did they ask humanity to pay the price? Did they seek to bribe mankind to accept their ideas? They knew too well that he who accepts a truth because of the bribe, will soon barter it away to a higher bidder... Proud and self-reliant characters prefer hatred to such sickening artificial love. Not because of any reward does a free spirit take his stand for a great truth, nor has such a one ever been deterred because of fear of punishment.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost.
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Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
We are not ‘everything,’ but neither are we ‘nothing.’ Spirituality is discovered in that space between paradox’s extremes, for there we confront our helplessness and powerlessness, our woundedness. In seeking to understand our limitations, we seek not only an easing of our pain but an understanding of what it means to hurt and what it means to be healed. Spirituality begins with the acceptance that our fractured being, our imperfection, simply is: There is no one to ‘blame’ for our errors — neither ourselves nor anyone nor anything else. Spirituality helps us first to see, and then to understand, and eventually to accept the imperfection that lies at the very core of our human be-ing.
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Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
Her handwriting was curious, small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
But tough!" said God excitedly. "You can imagine what this mother can do or endure."
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
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Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you? he said. Well, I replied, it's certainly better than War Corps.
Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and itÂ’s cheaper, too.
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Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most overrated events in the world.
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Some of the best friends we have are books. Why? Well, they belong usually to our relaxed armchair hours. They come only if chosen; hence they suit the mood or the taste, whether for humor, fantasy, adventure or mystery. In a trice they can take us with them to far places and other times. Best of all, they don't talk back or force themselves upon us, but, like patient, loving friends, wait until we give them our attention. And always, they are as near as our bookshelf when we need them.
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Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher. And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.'
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