This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Character | Conscience |
Learn to laugh. And most of all, learn to laugh at yourself. The person who can give a riotous account of his own faux pas, will never have to listen to another's embarrassing account of it. He will rarely know the sting of humiliation. His a delight to be with, but more important, he is enjoying his own life, and applying to his ills and errors the most soothing balm the human spirit has devised - laughter.
Character | Important | Laughter | Life | Life | Spirit | Will | Wisdom | Learn |
Morris Ernst, fully Morris Leopold Ernst
More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.
Behavior | Character | Indecision | Wisdom |
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity. An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trust him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Equanimity | God | Heart | Life | Life | Little | Temper | Trust | Wants | God |
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Horace, full name Quintus Horatius Flaccus NULL
Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.
Life cannot be controlled. It is a mystery inviting us to participate, to risk, to trust fate, to accept the blank rune stone, the unknown. Surrender teaches us not so much to understand as to inhabit the mystery... Once we can accept the larger mystery of Life, we can consciously create within it.
Character | Fate | Life | Life | Mystery | Risk | Surrender | Trust | Understand |