This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
They stagnated in that false happiness which comes of great possessions; whereas true happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating new things.
Deeds | Joy | Possessions | Deeds | Happiness |
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.
All the irascible passions imply movement towards something... And if we wish to know the order of all the passions in the way of generation, love and hatred are first; desire and aversion, second; hope and despair, third; fear and daring, fourth; anger, fifth; sixth and last, joy and sadness, which follow from all the passions... yet so that love precedes hatred; desire precedes aversion; hope precedes despair; fear precedes daring; and joy precedes sadness.
Anger | Daring | Desire | Despair | Fear | Hope | Joy | Love | Order | Sadness |
Some think that we are made good by nature, others by habituation, others by teaching... but the soul of the student must first have been cultivated by means of habits for noble joy and noble hatred... The character, then, must somehow be there already with a kinship to virtue, loving what is noble and hating what is base.
Character | Good | Joy | Means | Nature | Soul | Virtue | Virtue | Think |
A.C. Benson, fully Arthur Christopher “A.C.” Benson
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
Contemplation | Joy | Soul |
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one’s own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy fro the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
Assertion | Esteem | Existence | Joy | Love | Self | Self-esteem | Happiness |
Bhagavad Gītā, simply known as Gita NULL
There is more joy in doing one’s own duty badly than in doing another man’s duty well.
To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.
Affliction | Amusements | Inevitable | Joy | Recreation |
Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil.