Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury Of Quotes To Motivate and Inspire

In almost every book we read we find those few passages of wisdom which stand up stand out and demand to be noticed; One simile that solitary shines in the dry desert of a thousand lines as Alexander Pope once put it. Those are the ones we write down because we keep coming back to them time and time again. Over the last thirty years Ive done just that and carefully arranged my quotation collection into this book Ageless Wisdom. This compilation of quotes is not meant to be the largest collection but the wisest which shares the greatest of thoughts; as George Eliot poetically wrote A book which hath been culled from the flowers of all books.Theres just something mesmerizing about being able to pick up one book and having the wisdom of many of the worlds greatest minds at your immediate disposal. Ageless Wisdom is just that a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It contains a refreshing newness of quotes most have never been introduced to not just another rearranging of old tired quotations. This quote collection of nearly 600 pages is arranged into six parts: THE EMOTIONAL EFFECTSTHE SPIRITUAL JOURNEYTHE SOCIAL LIFETHE INTELLECTUAL IDEASTHE ETHICAL CHOICETHE MATERIAL WORLDInside these six parts are quotations broken down into 128 categories from over 1000 sources which were written over a 3500-year period. Below are just a few of the many great authors who are quoted in this collection: Napoleon BonaparteMartin LutherGeorge WashingtonAbraham LincolnJane AustenMahatma GandhiMartin Luther King Jr.William ShakespearePlatoCharles DarwinAristotleLeonardo Da VinciIsaac NewtonAlbert EinsteinJesus ChristConfuciusJoseph AddisonAesopMarcus AureliusFrancis BaconHenry Ward BeecherEdmund BurkeThomas CarlyleG.K. ChestertonCharles Caleb ColtonRalph Waldo EmersonBenjamin FranklinThomas FullerThomas JeffersonSamuel JohnsonHelen Keller Thomas KempisJohn F. KennedyC.S. LewisOscar WildeMichel de MontaigneThomas PaineBlaise PascalGeorge Bernard ShawSenecaC.H. SpurgeonPublilius SyrusHenry David ThoreauA.W. TozerBooker T. WashingtonMark TwainEdgar Allan PoeWashington IrvingFranklin D. RooseveltVoltaireIts like having the wisdom of an entire library of books contained in a single volume. This is not just a collection to be used as a reader or reference but a collection of wise quotes to pause and meditate upon to meet with those who are no longer alive to relive history from a front row seat to listen to many of the greatest minds who have ever lived to take advice from the greatest of counselors and to learn from many of the worlds greatest teachers all in this single volume called Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire. I hope you find this collection of quotes and sayings thought-provoking and that it brings you many hours of reading enjoyment.