This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
All thinking is not prayer. But thinking can be prayer, just as walking and talking and washing the floor can be prayer.
I will spend time with those I love. My spouse, my children, my family. A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love. A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships. Today I will spend at least five minutes with the significant people in my world. Five quality minutes of talking or hugging or thanking or listening. Five undiluted minutes with my mate, children, and friends.
Children | Family | Listening | Love | Man | Nothing | People | Talking | Time | Will | World |
Always look at those whom you are talking to, never at those you are talking of.
Talking |
When in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things - their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what to say we know not.
Good | Improvement | Men | Opinion | Talking |
The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Talking |
Whatever may be the means or whatever the more immediate end of any kind of art, all of it that is good agrees in this, that it is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
There's no music in "rest," but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.
Courage | Fortitude | Life | Life | Melody | Music | Patience | People | Perseverance | Rest | Talking |