This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"It is so easy to pass a day without having felt anything. To me, my life has meaning only when I’ve felt something I can’t forget." - David Andrew Seaman
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life." - Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
"That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity." - Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
"You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - Ruth Smeltzer
"Why must man meet this lovely day with solemn face and anxious knee? All the earth quivers in the ray of the kind sun, and only he walks down-eyed. More wise than we is every bud and bloom and pod. These hold Creations’ secret key - “Be still, and know that I am God.”" - Anne Higginson Spicer
"I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress...It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitude is right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." - Charles Swindoll
"This day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow. But if we look abroad and brings into one day's thoughts the evil of many, certain and uncertain, what will be and what will never be, our load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable." - Jeremy Taylor
"[Idolatry as] the moments when we forget who we really are and instead of remembering that we are sparks of the Divine, we start giving up our power to a guru, an ideology, a romantic obsession, a stressful job that begins to define us, or an unhealthy habit we think we can’t live without. Even is we no longer build or worship physical idols like in ancient times, we have modern-day addictions and pressures that cause us to forget that our purpose here is to be a vehicle for Divine energies." - Ted Falcon
"All human history from the earliest times to our own day may be considered as a movement of consciousness both of individuals and of homogeneous groups from lower ideas to higher ones." - Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
"When it comes to more complex behavior mathematics has never in fact done well at explaining most of what we see every day in nature." - Stephen Wolfram
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy, but he beholds the light, and whence it flows, he sees it in his joy; the youth, who daily farther from the east must travel, still is Nature’s priest, and by the vision splendid is on his way attended; at length the man perceives it die away, and fade into the light of common day." - William Wordsworth
"Each day you have the opportunity to change yourself. What have you done today?" - Fred D. Anderson
"Who can say where the road goes, where the day flows? Only time, And who can say if your love grows as your heart chose? Only time." - Enya, born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin NULL
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people." - Charles Bradlaugh
"A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours." -
"Men's manners have improved markedly since Genghis Khan's day. Harems went out of style centuries ago and even despots now disavow pillage and oppression as ideals. At heart, though, we're the same animals we were 800 years ago. Which is to say we are status seekers. We may talk of equality and fraternity. We may strive for classless societies. But we go right on building hierarchies and jockeying for status within them. Can we abandon the tendency? Probably not. For as scientists are now discovering, status seeking is not just a habit or cultural tradition. It's a design of the male psyche - a biological drive that is rooted in the nervous system and regulated by hormones and brain chemicals." -
"Today is a good day to die." - Chief Crazy Horse, Tȟašúŋke Witkó meaning literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy" or "His-Horse-Is-Spirited"
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." - Charles Dederich
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!" - Kālidāsa NULL
"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me. Time is a precious commodity. I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom. I will face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant. I will drink each minute as though it is my last. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. While it is here, I will use it for loving and giving. Today I will make a difference." - Max Lucado
"A day merely survived is no cause for celebration." - Og Mandino
"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." - Harold B. Melchart
"Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances." - Timothy Miller, fully Timothy S. Miller
"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins." - Bob Moawad
"The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration." - Ernest Newman
"If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day." - Alex Noble
"When I speak to people about creating a life, they often speak of what they want to "do" – as opposed to what they want to "feel." My recommendation to someone facing your decision is to write down a list of feelings that you're trying to create in your life and use that as the measuring stick to determine whether you're achieving your goals. I post my list right above my desk every day." - Luke O’Neill
"No night is so long that day will not follow it." - Finnish Proverbs
"Our major impact in transforming society comes from integrating a concern for the community into as many of our day-to-day business decisions and transactions as possible. This means buying from suppliers with a social mission, using ingredients that contribute to a sustainable world, and investing funds and human resources in ways that benefit the community." - Alan Cohen
"Our major impact in transforming society comes from integrating a concern for the community into as many of our day-to-day business decisions and transactions as possible. This means buying from suppliers with a social mission, using ingredients that contribute to a sustainable world, and investing funds and human resources in ways that benefit the community." -
"Our major impact in transforming society comes from integrating a concern for the community into as many of our day-to-day business decisions and transactions as possible. This means buying from suppliers with a social mission, using ingredients that contribute to a sustainable world, and investing funds and human resources in ways that benefit the community." -
"Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement." - Albert Camus
"There's no need to hang about waiting for the Last Judgment - it takes place every day." - Albert Camus
"Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus
"I shall tell you a great secret my friend, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day." - Albert Camus
"I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last judgment. It happens every day." - Albert Camus