This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
But to my mind, — though I am native here and to the manner born, — it is a custom more honour'd in the breach than the observance. Hamlet, Act i, Scene 4
Boys | Experience | Pleasure | Present | Time |
Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies. Measure for Measure, Act iii
Sense |
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.
Cause | Experience | Pleasure |
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
Pleasure |
There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Advice |
Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
Caution | Conversation | God | Good | Light | Means | Meditation | Nothing | Prayer | Soul | Spirit | Will | Wills | God |
Reflective apologists for war at the present day all take it religiously. It is a sort of sacrament. It's profits are to the vanquished as well as to the victor; and quite apart from any question of profit, it is an absolute good, we are told, for it is human nature at its highest dynamic.
Church | God | Good | Happy | Heart | Love | Prayer | Reality | Religion | Talking | Thought | God | Thought | Understand |
William (Morley Punshon) McFee
It's the people whore comfortable who have time to worry over little trivial things.
For your heart is your life, and your life can only be altered by that which is the real working of your heart. And if your prayer is only a form of words, made by the skill of other people, such a prayer can no more change you into a good man, than an actor upon the stage, who speaks kingly language, is thereby made to be a king: whereas one thought, or word, or look, towards God, proceeding from your own heart, can never be without its proper fruit, or fail of doing a real good to your soul. Again, another great and infallible benefit of this kind of prayer is this; it is the only way to be delivered from the deceitfulness of your own hearts.
I too will go, remembering what I said to you, when any land, the first to which we came seemed that we sought, and set your hearts aflame, and all seemed won to you: but still I think, perchance years hence, the fount of life to drink, unless by some ill chance I first am slain. But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Happy | Imagination | Man | Memory | Men | Mind | Past | Pleasure | Soul | Will | Wills | Work | Think |
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning and the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover the gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, and this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter; the void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter these lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.
O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee!
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
The rest of you... keep banging the rocks together.