This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The part of wisdom as well as of courage is to believe what is in the line of your needs, for only by such belief is the need fulfilled. Refuse to believe, and you shall indeed be right, for you shall irretrievably perish. But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself.
Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
It takes courage to experience the freedom that comes with autonomy, courage to accept intimacy and directly encounter other persons, courage to take a stand in an unpopular cause, courage to choose authenticity over approval and to choose it again and again, courage to accept the responsibility for your own choices, and, indeed, courage to be the unique person you really are.
Authenticity | Cause | Courage | Experience | Freedom | Responsibility | Unique | Approval |
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation, to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a light that radically alters our attitude, the very attitude that led us into the difficult situation.
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
The two fundamental points in dealing with dreams are these: First, the dream should be treated as a fact, about which one must make no previous assumption except that it somehow makes sense; and second, the dream is a specific expression of the unconscious.
Moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle – the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Age | Conscience | Conspiracy | Convictions | Courage | Struggle | World |
The future belongs to those who fuse intelligence with faith, and who with courage and determination grope their way forward from chance to choice, from blind adaptation to creative evolution.
Chance | Choice | Courage | Determination | Evolution | Faith | Future | Intelligence |
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, fully Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Molke
Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one. War is a part of God’s world order. In it are developed the noblest virtues of man: courage and abnegation, dutifulness and self-sacrifice. Without war the world would sink into materialism.
Courage | Eternal | God | Man | Materialism | Order | Peace | Sacrifice | Self | Self-sacrifice | War | World |
If my dreams left their footprints in the road, the path beneath my love’s window would be worn down, though it is stone. Alas, in the country of dream, no roads endure, no traces remain.
There are three kinds of “honest” people: those who are dishonest but whose dishonest remains undetected; those who have stopped being dishonest because their fortunes are already made; and finally all those who would like to be dishonest, but who lack the courage or the opportunity.
Courage | Opportunity | People |
Everyone likes to think that they have done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.
Children | Courage | Life | Life | Temptation | Temptation | Think |
Eddie Rickenbacker, formally Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.