This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Red Cloud, fully Maȟpíya Lúta in Lakota NULL
Look at me - I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Character | Children | Good | Love | Peace | Riches | Right | World | Riches |
To feel, to feel exquisitely, is the lot of every man; it is the charm that lends a superstitious joy to fear. But to appreciate belongs to the few; to one or two alone, here and there, the blended passion and understanding that constitute in its essence worship.
Character | Fear | Joy | Man | Passion | Understanding | Worship |
Christian Friedrich D. Schubert
No one really understands the grief or joy of another.
When is a man free? Now when he is driftwood on the stream of life... free of all cares or worries or ambitions... He is not free at all... To be free in action, in struggle, in undiverted and purposeful achievement, to move forward towards a worthy objective across a fierce terrain of resistance, to be vital and allow in the exercise of a great enterprise - that is to be free, and to know the joy and exhilaration of true freedom. A man is free only when he has an errand on earth.
Achievement | Action | Character | Earth | Freedom | Joy | Life | Life | Man | Struggle |
When we pray, we should feel the seriousness of speaking directly to the Almighty. The concept of seriousness should not be mistaken for sadness since sadness is a transgression. Seriousness should stem from the true joy of fulfilling a mitzvah [biblical law or good deed], the joy of having the merit to pray to the Almighty.
Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
To miss the joy is to miss all.