Flash Wisdom

The right quotation can change your life. That compressed idea—expressed in just a few words, a sentence or two—can shift yourthinking, trigger an epiphany, or alter your way of seeing the world.The wisest and most experienced people in history have left behindthese thought-bombs—at turns surprising, jolting, discomforting,and comforting insights about living a full, unbridled life, questioningauthority and reality, relating to fellow humans, creating, risking,loving, living with uncertainty, and staying sane in an insane world.Poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, presidents, activists,and more rub shoulders in this smartly designed book, giving us thebenefit of their hard-earned wisdom, breakthroughs, breakdowns, badchoices, sudden illuminations, and lightning wit. Sharing some of life’smost important lessons are William Blake and Bruce Lee, AbrahamLincoln and Lorrie Moore, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Terence McKenna,René Magritte and St. Teresa of Avila, Zelda Fitzgerald and Bob Marley,and dozens more. The quotes are arranged neatly into topics so youcan find the apt word for any given situation.Flash Wisdom is a book of rousing insights and challenging thoughtsthat will appeal to anyone who is searching, anyone who doesn't fit in,anyone who questions the way things are.... which is to say, all of us.