This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I am not a victim of circumstances. I do not choose to abdicate my responsibility for my own pleasure. It is my responsibility, and my happiness resides in that awareness and in the actions that result from that awareness... You maximize your potential for happiness if you decide right now to accept responsibility for your life.
Awareness | Circumstances | Life | Life | Pleasure | Responsibility | Right | Awareness | Happiness | Victim |
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against he usurpations of the national rulers, may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state.
Better | Defense | Government | Individual | People | Right | Self | Success |
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
The secret of success [in education] is pace, and the secret of pace is concentration. But, in respect to precise knowledge, the watchwords is pace, pace, pace. Get your knowledge quickly, and then use it. If you can use it, you will retain it.
Education | Knowledge | Respect | Success | Will | Respect |
A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained. Some governments are deficient in both these qualities; most governments are deficient in the first.
Fidelity | Good | Government | Knowledge | Means | Object | People | Qualities | Government | Happiness |
André Gide, fully André Paul Guillaume Gide
He who waits for God fails to understand that he possesses Him. Believe that God and happiness are one, and put all your happiness in the present moment.
God | Present | God | Happiness | Understand |
The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A peace must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady action. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation, - preserving in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
Action | Better | Man | Men | Mind | Success | Thought | Thought |
The amelioration of the condition of mankind, and the increase of human happiness ought to be the leading objects of every political institution, and the aim of every individual, according to the measure of his power, in the situation he occupies.
Individual | Mankind | Power | Happiness |
Anton Chekhov, fully Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Life does not agree with philosophy: there is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
Idleness | Life | Life | Philosophy | Happiness |