This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Most people search for happiness outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something you ARE, and it comes from the way you think.
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.
Better | Devotion | Excellence | Joy | Self | Sense | Sentiment | World | Excellence |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Motivation is when you get hold of an idea ... inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The more we teach achievement at the expense of inner satisfaction, the more we teach youngsters to take the easier path and to avoid a failure label. Yet, when we take just a cursory look at greatness in any human being in any profession, we are looking at people who have failed, and failed, and failed again and again, learning something new each time.
Children | Opportunity | Happiness |
Wayne Gretsky, fully Wayne Douglas Gretzky, “The Great One”
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
If we clearly apperceive the difference between direct apprehension in Whole-mind and relative comprehension by reasoning in mind divided into subject-and-object, all the apparent mysteries will disappear. For that will be found to be the key which unlocks the doors of incomprehension.
Wei Wu Wei, pen name for Terence James Stannus Gray
"The action of non-action," is the central paradox of Taoism and as a concept is second in importance only to the Tao itself, which incorporates it; Lao Tzu describes the action/non-action of someone who has realized the Tao as wu-wei: Thus, the wise man deals with things through wu-wei and teaches through no-words. The ten thousand things flourish without interruption. They grow by themselves, and no one possesses them.
Democracy | Existence | Freedom | Need | Objectives | World | Happiness |
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.
Joy |
Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope.
Our century of war, militarism, and political terror has produced great — and successful — advocates of true peace, among whom Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the paramount examples. The considerable success that they achieved testifies to the presence, in the midst of violence, of an authentic and powerful desire for peace and, more important, of the proven will to make the necessary sacrifices.
William Henley, fully William Ernest Henley
The smoke ascends in a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine and are changed. In the valley shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun closing his benediction, Sinks, and the darkening air Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night-- Night with train of stars and her great gift of sleep.