This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. - They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. - They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate."
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. - What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Guidance | Past | Wisdom | Guidance | Instruction |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
In listening to Sutra lectures and reciting Sutras, we must be patient and not grow weary.
Wisdom |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The Dharma is spoken; the Way has to be practiced. In order to derive benefit, you have to actually practice according to the Dharma.
Wisdom |
Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. - To understand everything we must be as God.
Censure | Praise | Superiority | Wisdom |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
If you fear others will find out about your bad deeds, those are truly bad deeds.
Distinguish | Will | Wisdom |
Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints.
Wisdom |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?
Heaven | Journey | Life | Life | Love | Need | Wisdom | Wit | Work |
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
Landing a single punch on your enemies nose is more satisfying than hearing well-intentioned advice from your elders.
Tobias Smollett, fully Tobias George Smollett
Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts, by mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell; where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants, and health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Wisdom |
I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.
Wisdom |