By Russ Kick,Russ Kick
The correct citation can switch your lifestyles. That compressed idea--expressed in precisely a couple of phrases, a sentence or two--can shift your considering, set off an epiphany, regulate your manner of seeing the realm. The wisest, so much skilled, and so much considerate humans in heritage have left us those little thought-bombs. And this ebook collects them: superb, jolting, discomforting, and comforting insights into dwelling an entire, unbridled existence, wondering authority and fact, on the subject of fellow people, growing, risking, loving, residing with uncertainty, and staying sane in an insane world.
Poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, presidents, mystics, activists, lecturers, and others rub shoulders, giving us the advantage of their richly deserved knowledge, breakthroughs, breakdowns, undesirable offerings, surprising illuminations, and lightning wit. Sharing a few of life's most crucial classes 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 of thousands more.
smartly prepared into subject matters we ask yourself about, Flash Wisdom's rousing insights and tough ideas will entice somebody who's looking, somebody who does not slot in, an individual who questions the way in which issues are...which is to assert, all of us
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