This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Robert Edward Rubin, aka Eddy Rubin
The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that is the last place they look.
Fulfillment | People |
Fred Rogers, "Mister Rogers," born Frederick McFeely Rogers
The roots of a child’s ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child’s having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return.
Ability | Safe | Companionship | Child |
What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned against a sweating wall, that place among the rocks--is it a cave, or winding path? The edge is what I have.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Time | Worth | Friendship |
Robert H. Schuller, fully Robert Harold Schuller
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Thinking |
Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
Nothing… refreshes and aids a sick man so much as the affection of his friends.
The world has the wealth and resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life. We consume too much when market relationships displace the bonds of community, compassion, culture, and place. We consume too much when consumption becomes an end in itself and makes us lose affection and reverence for the natural world.
Compassion | Culture | Life | Life | Opportunity | Reverence | Wealth | World |
Seneca the Younger, aka Seneca or Lucius Annaeus Seneca NULL
The primary indication… of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
This world is by definition the place where God hides Himself. It contains His light, i.e., the knowledge of Him, in a hidden way. And the purpose of life is to discover God; or as the prophet says: “to fill the world with the knowledge of God.”
God | Knowledge | Life | Life | Light | Purpose | Purpose | World | God |
Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi
The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
Heaven is my Father, the earth my mother, and even a tiny creature such as myself finds an intimate place in their midst. In everything that moves throughout the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.
Body | Earth | Father | Heaven | Men | Mother | Soul | Universe |
Lu Xun, or Lu Hsün, pen name of Zhou Shuren
If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight – that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
To find a place in the budget for the eternal is not in the spirit of our age.
If there should be any [persons], who though ignorant in Mathematics, yet pretending a skill in those Learnings, should dare, upon the authority of some place of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my Hypothesis, I value them not, but shall slight their inconsiderate judgment.
Authority | Censure | Hypothesis | Judgment | Mathematics | Purpose | Purpose | Scripture | Skill | Value |
Kenneth Eble, fully Kenneth Eugene Eble
If there is no place for pleasure in teaching, surely our Teaching has failed us altogether.
Pleasure |
Being As you become aware of your feelings, thoughts, and actions--and can observe them--you reach a most powerful place: the place of choice.