This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Luther Standing Bear, aka Ota Kte or Mochunozhin
For all the great religions have preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brilliant scholars, or have been written in books and embellished in fine language with finer covers, men - all man - is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
Life is growth - a challenge of environment. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then this splendid balance of cosmic forces which we call life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction. Therefore, health is the most precious of all things.
Balance | Challenge | Day | Equanimity | Growth | Health | Life | Life | Misfortune | Pleasure |
Luther Standing Bear, aka Ota Kte or Mochunozhin
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, grass, brooks… What we learned to do what only the students of nature ever learn, and that was to feel beauty.
Just because a child’s parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education, proper nutrition. Clearly we ignore the needs of black children, poor children, and handicapped children in the country.
Care | Children | Education | Health | Parents | Reason | Rights | Child |
Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
A person who eats sweet food to gratify his desires even though the food will be dangerous to his health is equal to an animal. This is not the behavior of an intelligent person.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
A room without books is a body without a soul.
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Death is a great preacher of deathlessness. The protest of the soul against death, its reversion, its revulsion, is a high instinct of life. Dissatisfaction in his world who satisfieth the desire of every living thing has a grip on the future. As far as this goes, he has the least assurance of immortality who can be best satisfied with eating and drinking and “things”’ he has the surest hope of ongoings and far distances who does not live by brad alone, whose eye is looking over the shoulder of things, whose ear hears mighty waters rolling ever more, who has “hopes naught can satisfy below.” The limits of which death makes us aware, make us aware of life’s limitlessness. The wing cage knows it was meant for an ampler ether and diviner air.
Death | Desire | Future | Hope | Immortality | Instinct | Life | Life | Protest | Soul | World |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Personal health is preserved by learning about one’s own constitution, by finding out what is good or bad for oneself, by continual self-control in eating habits and comforts (but just to the extent needed for self-preservation), by forgoing sensual pleasures, and lastly, by the professional skill of those to whose science these matters belong.
Control | Good | Health | Learning | Science | Self | Self-control | Self-preservation | Skill |
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach.
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
Mental health is an ongoing dedication to reality at all costs.
Dedication | Health | Reality |
Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
The dietary laws train us to master our appetites and not to consider... eating and drinking the end of man's existence.
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
The human being as a commodity is the disease of our age.
Maurice Sendak, fully Maurice Bernard Sendak
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Martin Seligman, Martin E. P. "Marty" Seligman
Depression, achievement, and physical health are three of the most obvious applications of learned optimism. But there is also the potential for a new understanding of yourself.
Achievement | Depression | Health | Optimism | Understanding |
Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler
The teacher is like the farmer or the physician. The farmer doesn’t produce the grains of the field; he merely helps them grow. The physician does not produce the health of the body; he merely helps the body maintain its health or regain its health. And the teacher does not produce knowledge in the mind; he merely helps the mind discover it for itself.
I am told that nothing that we do on earth, and nothing that we make on earth, is in as great abundance as force. We now have 30,000 pounds of destructive force, TNT equivalent, available for every human being on earth. We don't have 30,000 pounds of food or medicine or art or books or any of the things that ennoble life, but we have 30,000 pounds of instant force for every human being on earth.
Abundance | Art | Books | Earth | Force | Life | Life | Nothing | Art |