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
