This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Authentic success is knowing how simply abundant your life is exactly as it is today. Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you. Authentic success is living each day with a heart overflowing.
By happiness we are to understand the internal satisfaction of the soul, arising from the possession of good; and by good, whatever is suitable or agreeable to man for his preservation, perfection, convenience, or pleasure.
Good | Man | Perfection | Pleasure | Soul | Happiness | Understand |
What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be yappy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Day | Life | Life | Love | Nothing | Pain | Prudence | Prudence | Risk | Waste | Will | Happiness |
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But here was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that this was my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Business | Debt | Life | Life | Time | Happiness | Obstacle |
If by renouncing a lesser happiness one attains to a happiness that is greater, then let the wise pursue that happiness which is greater.
If humanity wishes to strive to exist and if it wishes happiness and prosperity, then it must have mutual friendship and ought not to rely upon force for mutual extermination.
Force | Humanity | Prosperity | Wishes | Friendship | Happiness |
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
In the United States, there’s a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success: He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. In Puritan countries, success shows God’s benevolence. In Catholic countries, your God loves you only when you’ve suffered.
Benevolence | God | Good | Success | God |
Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat
The moral goodness of man, the necessary consequence of his constitution, is capable of indefinite perfection like all his other faculties, and nature has linked together in an unbreakable chain truth, happiness and virtue.
Man | Nature | Perfection | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Happiness |
If everyone is moving forward together, then success will take care of itself.
The fundamental principle of revolutionary wars: strike to win; strike only when success is certain; if not, then don’t strike.
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Han Fei, also Han Fei Zi, Han Feitzu and Han Fei Tzu
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace.
Peace | Simplicity | Happiness |
I believe that our choice between two models of psychiatry is really a choice between two competing sets of moral values that will ultimately determine the kind of society we live in. One is the Psychotherapeutic Model’s ideal of healing the soul with its values of self-awareness, autonomy, personal growth, an I-Thou spirit of love, respect, and compassion for others, and an acceptance of moral responsibility for our own egoistic impulses and emotions. The other is the Medical Model’s ideal of quick fix, with its swimming-pool values of stability and conformity, and an I-It orientation toward material success and other superficial addictive pleasures
Acceptance | Awareness | Choice | Compassion | Conformity | Emotions | Growth | Love | Model | Respect | Responsibility | Self | Self-awareness | Society | Soul | Spirit | Success | Will | Society |
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.