This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the season with him from the south.
Blessings | Cheerfulness | Gold | Happy | Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Man | Soul | Sympathy |
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
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Learning is the only wealth tyrants cannot despoil. Only death can dim the lamp of knowledge that is within you. The true wealth of a nation lies not in its gold or silver but in its learning, wisdom, and in the uprightness of its sons.
Nāgārjuna, fully Acharya Nāgārjuna NULL
He who would misuse the boon of human life is far more stupid than he who would employ a gold vessel inlaid with precious gems as a receptacle for filth.
Wisdom is like gold ore in the ground, mixed with rock and sand; logic is the mercury used to extract the gold dust.
It is a problem that genius can very well solve - to illuminate every low or trite word you can offer it. Give you rubbish to Shakespeare, he will give it all back to you in gold and stars.
Roger Babson, fully Roger Ward Babson
A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character - that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
The end of wisdom is peace and tranquillity, whilst that of gold is grief and vexation.
Gold | Grief | Peace | Tranquility | Wisdom |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
The wise will remain serene in the face of trouble... Wisdom leads to tranquillity, gold and silver to anxiety... Tranquillity is the summit of felicity.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Gold | Tranquility | Will | Wisdom | Wise |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
Wisdom leads to tranquillity, gold and silver to anxiety.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Gold | Tranquility | Wisdom |
If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as if it were a part of gold at the end of the rainbow, but among human beings who are living richly and fully the good life. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double Dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar gold button that has rolled under the cupboard in his bed room. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living 24 crowded hours of the day. If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen. If your ambition has the momentum of an express train at full speed, if you can no longer stop your mad rush for glory, power, or intellectual supremacy, try to divert your energies into socially useful channels before it is too late. For those who seek the larger happiness and greater effectiveness open to human beings there can be but one philosophy of life, a philosophy of constructive altruism. The truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity. The good life demands a working philosophy as an orientating map of conduct. This is the golden way of life. This is the satisfying life. This is the way to be happy though human.
Altruism | Ambition | Courage | Danger | Day | Death | Ego | Fighting | Gold | Good | Happy | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Optimism | Philosophy | Service | Will | Writing | Ambition | Danger | Happiness |
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars… or your two legs… or your hands… or your hearing? Add up what you have, and you’ll find that you wouldn’t sell it at all for all the gold in the world.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Gold | Price | Self-sacrifice | Worth |