The right quotation can change your life. That condensed
idea―expressed in just a few words or a sentence or two―can shift
your thinking, trigger an epiphany, and alter your way of seeing
the world. The wisest, most experienced, and most thoughtful
people in history have left us these little thought-bombs, and
this book collects them. Surprising, jolting, discomforting, and
comforting insights urge us to live a full, unbridled life,
question authority and reality, relate to fellow humans, create,
risk, love, live with uncertainty, and stay sane in an insane
world.
Poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, presidents,
mystics, activists, academics, and others rub shoulders here and
give us the benefit of their hard-earned wisdom, breakthroughs,
breakdowns, bad choices, sudden illuminations, and lightning wit.
Sharing some of life's most important lessons are William Blake
and Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln and Lorrie Moore, Fyodor
Dostoevsky and Terence McKenna, René Magritte and St. Teresa of
Avila, Zelda Fitzgerald and James Baldwin, and hundreds more.
Neatly arranged into topics that everyone wonders about, this
inspirational volume is filled with rousing insights and
challenging thoughts that will appeal to anyone who is searching,
anyone who doesn't fit in, anyone who questions the way things
are . . . which is to say, everyone.
*Previously published as Flash Wisdom, 9781938875120