This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.
Expectation | Life | Life | Prediction | World | Worth | Expectation |
If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years... Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts... Practice resurrection.
History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has got to be shaken. In a sense, nothing that was ever lost in Port William ever has been replaced. In another sense, nothing is ever lost, and we are compacted together forever, even by our failures, our regrets, and our longings.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
While the wickedness of the flesh was preached from the pulpit, the young husbands and wives and the courting couples sat thigh to thigh, full of yearning and joy, and the old people thought of the beauty of the children. And when church was over they would go home to Heavenly dinners of fried chicken, it might be, and creamed new potatoes and creamed new peas and hot biscuits and butter and cherry pie and sweet milk and buttermilk. And the preacher and his family would always be invited to eat with somebody and they would always go, and the preacher, having just foresworn on behalf of everybody the joys of the flesh, would eat with unconsecrated relish.
Conservation | Difficulty | Discipline | Government | Man | Mistake | Nothing | Peace | Understanding | Will | Work | Worth | Government |
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
I've never hit a woman in my life. Not even my own mother.
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
Worth |
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The Ego is not the primary center of Awareness….the Self is. The Shadow is not the primary center of awareness…the Self is. The ego is the reflecting witness. The unfoldment of a life is driven by the unconscious dynamics between Self...the Shadow…and the Ego. What the ego is aware of is mostly socialization attitudes, biases, preferences, and filtered perceptions. The Self is the only responsible agent for the entire mystery of one’s life. Free will of the Shadow or of the Ego is an illusion generated out of a limited awareness. When witnessing the Divine Play of one’s Life…best not to appropriate any of what is seen, revealed, or experienced as personal.
Consciousness | Deceit | Ego | Force | Guarantee | Life | Life | Little | Love | Soul | Time |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
Who on earth invented the silly convention that it is boring or impolite to talk shop? Nothing is more interesting to listen to, especially if the shop is not one's own.
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind.... The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and clasical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.
Agitation | Authority | Change | Church | Conscience | Controversy | Doctrine | Enthusiasm | Force | Language | Light | Men | Method | Peace | Principles | Reason | Religion | Right | Sense | Spirit | Theology | Will |