This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Blessings | Death | Earth | Grief | Heaven | Honor | Life | Life | Peace | Poverty | Wealth | Will |
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Fortune | Good | Misfortune | Misfortune |
A.C. Benson, fully Arthur Christopher “A.C.” Benson
What we have to do is to see as deep as we can into the truth of things, not to invent paradises of thought, sheltered gardens, from which grief and suffering shall tear us, naked and protesting; but to gaze into the heart of God, and then to follow as faithfully as we can the imperative voice that speaks within the soul.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Agony | Grief | Indulgence | Life | Life |
Ill Fortune never crush’t that man whom good Fortune deceived not.
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.