This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Art should be a satire and a warning against our paralyzed emotions, our devitalized thinking and our denaturalized living. It teaches us unsophistication in a sophisticated world. It should restore to us health and sanity caused by too much mental activity. It should sharpen our senses, re-establish the connection between our reason and our human nature, and assemble the ruined parts of a dislocated life again into a whole, by restoring our original nature.
Art | Emotions | Health | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Reason | Sanity | Satire | Thinking | Warning | World |
Life is growth - a challenge of environment. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then this splendid balance of cosmic forces which we call life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction. Therefore, health is the most precious of all things.
Balance | Challenge | Day | Equanimity | Growth | Health | Life | Life | Misfortune | Pleasure |
Just because a child’s parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education, proper nutrition. Clearly we ignore the needs of black children, poor children, and handicapped children in the country.
Care | Children | Education | Health | Parents | Reason | Rights | Child |
Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
A person who eats sweet food to gratify his desires even though the food will be dangerous to his health is equal to an animal. This is not the behavior of an intelligent person.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Personal health is preserved by learning about one’s own constitution, by finding out what is good or bad for oneself, by continual self-control in eating habits and comforts (but just to the extent needed for self-preservation), by forgoing sensual pleasures, and lastly, by the professional skill of those to whose science these matters belong.
Control | Good | Health | Learning | Science | Self | Self-control | Self-preservation | Skill |
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
Mental health is an ongoing dedication to reality at all costs.
Dedication | Health | Reality |
Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
When we are happy, we are less self-focused, we like others more, and we want to share our good fortune even with strangers. When we are down, though, we become distrustful, turn inward, and focus defensively on our own needs. Looking out for Number One is more characteristic of sadness than of well-being.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
To live is not just to survive, but to thrive with passion, compassion, some humor and style.
Compassion | Humor | Passion | Style |
Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
Depression, achievement, and physical health are three of the most obvious applications of learned optimism. But there is also the potential for a new understanding of yourself.
Achievement | Depression | Health | Optimism | Understanding |
Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler
The teacher is like the farmer or the physician. The farmer doesn’t produce the grains of the field; he merely helps them grow. The physician does not produce the health of the body; he merely helps the body maintain its health or regain its health. And the teacher does not produce knowledge in the mind; he merely helps the mind discover it for itself.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
No matter what his present state, man can change for the better through self-control, discipline, and following proper diet and health laws. Why do you think you cannot change? Mental laziness is the secret cause of all weakness.
Better | Cause | Change | Control | Diet | Discipline | Health | Laziness | Man | Present | Self | Self-control | Weakness | Following | Think |
Apela Colorado, aka Pamela Colorado
Humor is a critical ingredient of all truth seeking, even in the most powerful rituals because... humor balances gravity.
To practice the basic principles of good health, visualize yourself as sound, healthy and filled with vitality and boundless life of your Creator. Look upon yourself as the unique individual that you are. Get in harmony with the creative, life-giving, health-maintaining forces of the universe. Affirm peace, wholeness, and good health - and they will be yours.
Giving | Good | Harmony | Health | Individual | Life | Life | Peace | Practice | Principles | Sound | Unique | Universe | Wholeness | Will |