This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The child’s murmuring is more and is less than words; there are no notes, and yet it is a song; there are no syllables, and yet it is language…. This poor stammering is a compound of what the child said when it was an angel, and of what it will say when it becomes a man.
Nearly the whole secret of great hearts lies in this word, perseverando. Perseverance is to courage what the wheel is to the lever, it is the perpetual renewing of the fulcrum.
War |
Suspicions are nothing more nor less than wrinkles. Early youth has none. What overwhelms Othello glides over Candide.
It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity--even under the most difficult circumstances--to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
During war times not only one should himself take part in it but also encourage the courageous to do so by creating awareness, zeal and enthusiasm for the war in the society.
Responsibility | Truth | Waiting | War |
Viktor Frankl, fully Viktor Emil Frankl
The size of human suffering is absolutely relative. It also follows that a very trifling thing can cause the greatest of joys.
Enough | Excitement | Friend | Good | Hope | Order | Thought | Thought |
Humans should always speak truth and should be committed towards it. Such a person is always immortal.
In real worship, we just not do ritualistic worship but we try to imbibe the qualities of the one we are worshipping.
In order to be blessed with a long life it is imperative that we become strong both mentally and physically. We should do all that makes our mind and body healthy and energetic.
We speak to being, to the lord of being, and also to him that controls the beings; to the beings all assembled, they shall deliver us from calamity.
Order |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Sci-fi uses the images that ‘sf’ — starting with H.G. Wells — made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.
Liberty | Method | Order | People | Prediction | Science | Will |