This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it will seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they will understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Important | Money | Thinking | Wants | Will | Wisdom | Understand |
Happiness in marriage is not a gift, but an opportunity. It is an obligation, not an experiment.
Experiment | Marriage | Obligation | Opportunity | Wisdom |
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
Genius | Man | Marriage | Position | Rank | Wife | Wisdom | World |
Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"
The alternative to recalling and interpreting dreams is not always pleasant. Individuals cannot expect to drift forever. If they do not puzzle out their identity, and the direction of their lives by the aid of their dreams, then they may be brought, by the relentless action of their own pent-up souls, into some crisis which requires that they come to terms with themselves. It may be a medical crisis. It may be the end of a marriage or of a job. It may be depression or withdrawal.
Action | Aid | Depression | Dreams | Marriage | Wisdom | Crisis |
Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton
Every other sin hath some pleasures annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both. We should strive against it, for if indulged in it will be to us as a foretaste of hell upon earth.
Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
It is not marriage that fails: it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.