This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Happiness is the legitimate fruitage of love and service. Set happiness before you as an end, no matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, or oblivion even, and you will not attain it. But renounce it and seek the pleasure of God, and that instant is the birth of your own.
Birth | Fame | God | Love | Oblivion | Pleasure | Service | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |
Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Peace among nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.
True happiness springs from moderation.
Moderation | Wisdom | Happiness |
The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.
Behavior | Industry | Means | Mediocrity | Plan | Policy | Success | Wisdom |
Whether a man accepts from fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from aspiration her axe and cord, and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart.
Aspiration | Fortune | Heart | Man | Success | Will | Wisdom | Work | Aspiration |
John Oliver Hobbes, Pseud. for Mrs. Pearlmary-Teresa Craigie
Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?