This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Those that want (lack) friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The relation of love between husband and wife is in itself not objective, because even if their feeling is their substantial unity, still this unity has no objectivity. Such objectivity parents first acquire in their children, in whom they can see objectified the entirety of their union.
Children | Husband | Love | Objectivity | Parents | Unity | Wife |
One's friends are the part of the human race with which one can be human.
Human race | Race | Friends |
Two protecting deities, indeed, like two sober friends supporting a drunkard, flank human folly and keep it within bounds. One of these deities is Punishment and the other Agreement.
Folly | Punishment | Friends |
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people and friends in spots.
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Children | Conduct | Consequences | Experience | Parents |
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
One should fear the envy of relatives and friends more than the envy of enemies.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
I still find each day too short for all thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I lie the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and wonder of the world.
Beauty | Books | Day | Mind | Wonder | World | Beauty | Friends |