This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech — it is a gift from heart to heart.
Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind, that, in other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.
Blame | Defense | Fighting | Freedom | Right | Rule | Slavery | Time | Writing | Happiness | Understand | Winning |
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.
Aliveness | Better | Children | Freedom | Good | Harmony | Important | Life | Life | Love | Man | Marriage | Public | Respect | Security | Thinking | Will | Woman | Respect | Happiness |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
While there is life there is hope, has deeper meaning in reverse. While there is hope there is life. Hope comes first, life follows. Hope gives power to life. Hope rouses life to continue to expand, to grow, to reach out, to go on. Hope sees a light where there isn't any. Hope lights candles in millions of despairing hearts. Where would I be without hope?
Compassion | Freedom | Love | Order | Peace | People | Universe | Happiness |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
Contentment | Good | Happy | Public | Worry | Happiness | Think |
Walt Kelley, fully Walter Crawford "Walt" Kelly, Jr.
The natural born reason we didn't git no yew-ranium when we crosses the li'l yew tree and the gee-ranium is on account of cause we didn't have no geiger counter.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, that the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world; for my enemy is dead, a man as divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin -- I draw near, bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
Contentment | Truth | Happiness |
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.
Women commiserate the brave, and men the beautiful.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Most people are nicer to total strangers than they are to their loved ones and to themselves.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Most people search for happiness outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something you ARE, and it comes from the way you think.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Motivation is when you get hold of an idea ... inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
The more we teach achievement at the expense of inner satisfaction, the more we teach youngsters to take the easier path and to avoid a failure label. Yet, when we take just a cursory look at greatness in any human being in any profession, we are looking at people who have failed, and failed, and failed again and again, learning something new each time.
Children | Opportunity | Happiness |
Wayne Gretsky, fully Wayne Douglas Gretzky, “The Great One”
The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.