This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Falsehood | Influence | Kindness | Life | Life | Obscurity | Obscurity | People | Truth | World |
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kindness | Silence | Toleration |
The kindness of the people is but an empty shell containing no gem or precious pearl. With two hearts do people live; a small one of deep softness, the other of steel. And kindness is too often a shield, and generosity too often a sword.
Generosity | Kindness | People |
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Despair | Kindness | Resolution | Strength | Tenderness | Weakness |
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
How good it would be if we could learn to be rigorous in judgment of ourselves, and gentle in our judgment of our neighbors! In remedying defects, kindness works best with others, sternness with ourselves. It is easy to make allowances for our faults, but dangerous; hard to make allowances for others’ faults, but wise.
Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
Kindness | Miracles | Unkindness | Work |
The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. The pursuits of mankind are commonly frigid and contemptible, and the mistake comes, at last, to be detected. But virtue is a charm that never fades. The soul that perceptually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
Benevolence | Cheerfulness | Kindness | Mankind | Mistake | Soul | Sympathy | Virtue | Virtue | Will |
There seemed to be nothing she could add to the material things we already had. And so she offered something of far greater value: a gift of the heart, an act of kindness carried out in our name.
It’s about whether we’re going to be able to look forward to our descendants and hand this world over to them in much better shape, so they will look back on us with kindness and with praise – rather than cursing us for our apathy, or our narcissism, or our refusal to stand up tall for justice and freedom in the world.
Apathy | Better | Freedom | Justice | Kindness | Praise | Will | World |
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
What is the noblest pedigree? Loving kindness to men.
Saint Basil, aka Basil of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great NULL
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.