This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Memory sustains man in the world of life." - Samuel David Luzzatto, aka by acronym of SHaDaL or SHeDaL
"I can reveal to you that I wished to die - For with much weeping she left me Saying: "Sappho - what suffering is ours! For it is against my will that I leave you." In answer, I said: "Go, happily remembering me For you know what we shared and pursued - If not, I wish you to see again our [former joys]... The many braids of rose and violet you [wreathed] Around yourself at my side And the many garlands of flowers With which you adorned your soft neck: With royal oils from [fresh flowers] You anointed [ yourself ] And on soft beds fulfilled your longing [For me] " - Sappho NULL
"I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold... I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold. " - Sara Teasdale, born Sara Trevor Teasdale, aka Sara Teasdale Filsinger
"Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again. " - Sara Teasdale, born Sara Trevor Teasdale, aka Sara Teasdale Filsinger
"With the advent of people like Jon Kabat-Zinn, who applies it to a medical model, mindfulness has been taken out of an exclusively Eastern context. We teach mindfulness in a Jewish context. We feel it is an authentic interpretation of the traditions of Judaism. Judaism is an evolving civilization, American and modern as well as ancient. The people coming to this retreat at Garrison are either already teaching or preparing to teach mindfulness in a Jewish context. They are coming to deepen their own practice and advance their teaching capacities." - Sheila Peltz Weinberg
"Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind." - Karl Popper, fully Sir Karl Raimund Popper
"I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service." - Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
"In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about." - Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
"Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.... You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for out children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." - Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
"They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism." - Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure." - Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
"What follows, then, are seven practical suggestions for bearing the responsibility that comes with leadership without losing one’s effectiveness or collapsing under the strain. They are: (1) get on the balcony, (2) distinguish self from role, (3) externalize the conflict, (4) use partners, (5) listen, using oneself as data, (6) find a sanctuary, and (7) preserve a sense of purpose." - Ronald A. Heifetz
"What is human sin but the abuse of human appetites, of human passions, of human faculties, in themselves all innocent?" - Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
"Treat the little customer as if he was a big customer, and he will stay with you when he grows up." - Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist
"There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour." - Rudyard Kipling
"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." - Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
"Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you…you are -we all are-the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is." - Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
"We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect." - Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words." - Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
"Greatness consists not in holding some office; greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means, in the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life that is true greatness." - Russell H. Conwell, fully Russell Herman Conwell
"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so." - Russell Baker. fully Russell Wayne Baker
"Human society being complex, remedies cannot be simple if they are to be efficacious." - Russell Kirk
"Because of this low gravity, we B612'ers talk about 'docking with' a near Earth object and not 'landing on' one." - Russell Schweikart, fully Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart aka Schweikart
"If you learn a lot, you'll age soon." - Russian Proverbs
"You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation." - Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
"I never enjoyed any business or mode of life as much as I do this. I really feel badly when I think of several of my intimate friends who are compelled to stay at home. These marches and campaigns in the hills of western Virginia will always be among the pleasantest things I can remember. I know we are in frequent perils, that we may never return and all that, but the feeling that I am where I ought to be is a full compensation for all that is sinister, leaving me free to enjoy as if on a pleasure tour." - Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"I was looking for something where I could make money and serve the public. The restaurant business is something you have to enjoy in order to be in it. You must look forward to serving the public and delivering a quality product. When you receive complements about the quality of service and food you deliver, it makes it all worthwhile." - S. Truett Cathy
"Honest women are inconsolable for the mistakes they haven't made." - Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil." - Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
"Such great and wonderful things would never have been done for us by God, if the life of the soul were to end with the death of the body. Why then do I delay? Why do I not abandon my hopes of this world and devote myself entirely to the search for God and for the happy life?" - Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
"O loving, tender Word of God, You tell me: 'I have marked the path and opened the gate with My Blood; do not be negligent in following it, but take the same road which I, eternal Truth, have traced out with My Blood.' Arise, my soul, and follow your Redeemer, for no one can go to the Father but by Him. O sweet Christ, Christ-Love, You are the way, and the door through which we must enter in order to reach the Father." - Saint Catherine of Siena NULL
"All the brothers should always be intent on good works, for it is written: 'Always do something good so that the devil will find you occupied.' And again: 'Idleness is the enemy of the soul.' Therefore, the servants of God must always give themselves totally to prayer or to some good work." - Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
"You damned spirits! You can only do what the hand of God allows you to do." - Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
"The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire." - Saint Gregory, aka Pope Gregory I, St. Gregory the Dialogist, "Gregory the Great" NULL
"Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
"If a man should come here with earnestness - even though he does not read the Scriptures at home - and if he pays attention to what is said here, within the space of even one year he will be able to obtain a considerable acquaintance with them. For we do not read these Scriptures today, and tomorrow others that are quite different, but always the same section and consecutively. However, in spite of this, many have such an apathetic attitude that after such reading they do not even know the names of the books. And they are not ashamed, nor do they shudder with dread, because they have come so carelessly to the hearing of the word of God. On the other hand, if a musician, or a dancer, or anyone else connected with the theater should summon them to the city, they all hurry eagerly, and thank the one who invited them, and spend an entire half-day with their attention fixed on the performer exclusively. Yet when God addresses us through the prophets and apostles, we yawn, we are bored, we become drowsy." - John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
"Oh, what great happiness and bliss, what exaltation it is to address oneself to the Eternal Father. Always, without fail, value this joy which has been accorded to you by God's infinite grace and do not forget it during your prayers; God, the angels and God's holy men listen to you." - Saint John of Kronstadt, fully John Il’ich Serguiev, aka Holy Father John of the Kronstadt NULL
"All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted." - Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
"I have stepped from that region of me that did not love all the time." - Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
"I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reason—I mean that it does not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it." - Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
"She becomes brutally aware of her insignificance and realizes how little we would be able to do to help ourselves if the Beloved ever decided to abandon us." - Saint Teresa of Ávila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
"Present misfortune presupposes good luck in the future." - Saint Vincent de Paul
"Your soul will be blessed, Sister, if you bear patiently the troubles of mind and body His Providence sends you, or which come to you from within and without." - Saint Vincent de Paul
"I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong." - Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it." - Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
"The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad." - Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second, hand." - Samuel Butler
"A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends." - Samuel Butler
"A skillful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war." - Samuel Butler