This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential... Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definitive objective will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.
Attainment | Enjoyment | Experience | Focus | Life | Life | Success | Will |
I’ve learned and unlearned all my life; it’s helped me to survive. There are no constants, nothing is immutable, only random circumstance from which our experience builds a coherent arc of life. And for that arc you have only to be truly done with one thing before moving to another. There’s an art in letting go.
Art | Experience | Kindness | Nothing | Sympathy | Will | Art | Circumstance |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
At death, you forget all the limitations of the physical body, and realize how free you are... You exist apart from the mortal body... There is nothing to fear. When death comes, laugh at it. Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die. Our real self, the soul, is immortal. We may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but we can never be destroyed. We exist, and that existence is eternal... Nothing can terminate the eternal consciousness.
Body | Change | Consciousness | Death | Eternal | Existence | Experience | Fear | Lesson | Little | Mortal | Nothing | Self | Soul | Learn |
Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding.
Atheism | Disease | Error | Soul | Understanding |
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Experience | Knowledge | Thought | Thought |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Error | Religion | Science | Superstition |
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
Experience | Man | Perfection | Teach | World |
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has earned anything rightly until he knows that every day is doomsday. Today is a king in disguise. Today always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of a uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank todays. Let us not be deceived, let us unmask the king as he passes.
Day | Disguise | Experience | Good | Happy | Heart | Looks | Man |
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
Age | Experience | Waiting | World |
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
I believe that our experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know and what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret.
Education | Experience |
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
It is neither possible for man to know the truth fully nor to avoid the error of pretending that he does.
Reinhold Niebuhr, fully Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
Existence | Experience | Love |
For just as faith teaches us that the supreme felicity of the other life consists only in this contemplation of the Divine Majesty, so we continue to learn by experience that a similar meditation, though incomparably less perfect, causes us to enjoy the greatest satisfaction of which we are capable of in this life.
Contemplation | Experience | Faith | Life | Life | Meditation | Contemplation | Learn |