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Book Overview: Here is a wealth of quotations–witty, humorous, insightful, touching–ideal for gift giving, personal reflection, bedside reading, or anytime one wants to get in touch with the beauty and wisdom of the human spirit. The authors include actors, gurus, philosophers, rock stars, film directors, baseball players, poets, sages from fifth-century China, the celebrated and the unknown–all of us, in a sense.
“Be afraid to destroy the unity of people by stirring bad feelings amongst them against another with your words.”
Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 17)
“This can be the source of your unhappiness—your lack of connection to who you are and what makes you unique. The first move toward mastery is always inward—learning who you really are and reconnecting with that innate force. Knowing it with clarity, you will find your way to the proper career path and everything else will fall into place. It is never too late to start this process.”
Robert Greene, The Daily Laws (Page 13)
“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us… The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
Marcel Proust, via The Daily Laws (Page 5)
“Kind people help each other even without noticing that they are doing so, and evil people act against each other on purpose.”
Chinese Proverb, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 16)
“Those who know the rules of true wisdom are baser than those who love them. Those who love them are baser than those who follow them.”
Chinese Proverb, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 15)
“At the heart of all religions lies a single unifying truth. Let Persians bear their taovids, Jews wear their caps, Christians bear their cross, Muslims bear their sickle moon, but we have to remember that these are all only outer signs. The general essence of all religions is love to your neighbor, and that this is requested by Manuf, Zoroaster, Buddha, Moses, Socrates, Jesus, Saint Paul, and Mohammed alike.”
Ewald Flügel, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 14)
“There are too many mediocre books which exist just to entertain your mind. Therefore, read only those books which are accepted without doubt as good.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, via A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 13)
“What can be more precious than to communicate every day with the wisest men of the world?”
Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 7)
Excerpt: This post marks another year of posting deep and insightful quotes. Click to read my top 21 quotes from 2021 and move into 2022 ready!
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.”
George Bernard Shaw, via Sunbeams (Page 159)
“If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself. I am the only real truth I know.”
Jean Rhys, via Sunbeams (Page 159)
“There is a palace that opens only to tears.”
Zohar, via Sunbeams (Page 159)
“There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.”
François La Rochefoucauld, via Sunbeams (Page 158)
“The majority of people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, terribly objective sometimes, but the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.”
Sören Kierkegaard, via Sunbeams (Page 157)
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea,
That is the sky;
There is one spectacle grander than the sky,
That is the interior of the soul.”
Victor Hugo, via Sunbeams (Page 156)
