This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Excellence | God | Good | Impulse | Life | Life | Longing | Soul | Time | Wisdom | Excellence |
Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Desire | Enough | Faith | Love | Remorse | Submission | Time | Wisdom |
Myers Y. Cooper, fully Myers Young Cooper
It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."
Lewis Dilwyn, fully Monsignor Dilwyn W Lewis
People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski
In sorrow seek happiness.
The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life.
Change | Children | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Recreation | Success | Time | Will | Wisdom |
Some people, in working toward a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to reexamine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with a more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.
Action | Important | People | Sense | Time | Wisdom | Inertia | Value |
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Attention | Good | Impression | Memory | Wisdom |
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
Experience | Time | Wisdom |
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
Is it any weakness, pray, to be wrought on by exquisite music? to feel its wondrous harmonies searching the subtlest windings of your soul, the delicate fibres of life where no memory can penetrate, and binding together your whole being, past and present, in one ;unspeakable vibration; melting you in one moment with all the tenderness, all the love, that has been scattered through the toilsome years, concentrating in one emotion of heroic courage or resignation all the hard-learned lessons of self-renouncing sympathy, blending your present joy with past sorrow, and your present sorrow with all your past joy?
Courage | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Memory | Music | Past | Present | Resignation | Self | Sorrow | Soul | Sympathy | Tenderness | Weakness | Wisdom |
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Better | Day | Future | Life | Life | Little | Present | Time | Tomorrow | Wisdom |
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment may at any time prove me wrong.
Experiment | Right | Time | Wisdom | Wrong |
Georges Duhamel, Pen name Denis Thevenin
Great ideas have such radiant strength. They cross space and time like avalanches: they carry along with them whatever they touch. They are the only riches that one shares without ever dividing them.
Ideas | Riches | Space | Strength | Time | Wisdom | Riches |