This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Take spring when it comes, and rejoice. Take happiness when it comes, and rejoice. Take love when it comes, and rejoice.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
In the book of nature, where every emotional, mental and spiritual quality of humanity may find its correspondence and illustrations, flowers represent good affections. As the flower precedes the fruit, and gives notice of its coming, so good thoughts, affections and intentions precede and give promise of deeds in love to others.
Deeds | Good | Humanity | Love | Nature | Promise | Wisdom | Deeds |
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
To love nothing is not to live; to love but feebly is to languish rather than live.
The very core of peace and love is imagination. All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Altruism | Imagination | Love | Peace | Wisdom |
True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom we have made it with.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in the soil with strong mixture of troubles.
Calamity | Courage | Human nature | Love | Nature | Need | Troubles | Will | Wisdom | Calamity |
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then, is to desire - but to desire what God would have us desire.
Desire | Excellence | Father | God | Heart | Love | Need | Prayer | Wisdom | Words | Excellence | God |