This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. How much one actually achieves depends largely on: 1. Desire. 2. Faith. 3. Persistent Effort. 4. Ability. But if you are lacking the first three factors, your ability will not balance out the lack. So concentrate on the first three and the results will amaze you.
Ability | Balance | Desire | Effort | Faith | Mind | Wants | Will |
The power of thought is the only thing over which any human being has complete, unquestionable means of control - a fact so astounding that it connotes a close relationship between the mind of man and the source of all power - Infinite Intelligence.
Control | Intelligence | Man | Means | Mind | Power | Relationship | Thought | Thought |
Mikhail Bakunin, fully Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists. The old world must be destroyed and replaced by a new one. When you have freed your mind from the fear of God, and that childish respect for the fiction of right, then all the remaining changes that bind you-property, marriage, morality, and justice-will snap asunder like threads... Any dictatorship can have only one aim; self-perpetuation.
Fear | God | Justice | Marriage | Mind | Morality | Property | Respect | Right | Self | Will | Work | World | Respect | Old |
Mortimer J. Adler, fully Mortimer Jerome Adler
The teacher does not produce knowledge in the mind; he merely helps the mind discover it for itself.
Ovid, formally Publius Ovidius Naso NULL
Leisure nourishes the body, the mind too feeds upon it.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Mankind must realize that the basic nature of the soul is spiritual. For man and woman to look upon each other only as a means to satisfy lust is to court the destruction of happiness. Slowly, bit by bit, peace of mind will go.
Lust | Man | Mankind | Means | Mind | Nature | Peace | Soul | Will | Woman |
One truth emerges clearly in my mind - the universal need of love. Whether they think they do or not, all people want love... They cannot survive without love; they must have it or they will perish. For without love, we lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal.
Trouble, difficulty and hardship are three great teachers. Fortunate is the person who in keeping company with them keeps his eyes, his ears and, better still, his mind open; they can teach him valuable things.
Better | Difficulty | Mind | Teach | Hardship |