Wisdom of the ages : a modern master brings eternal truths into everyday life

Content: Pythagoras and Blaise Pascal : meditation --
Buddha : knowing --
Lao-tzu : Leadership --
Confucius : patience --
Patanjali : inspiration --
Marcus Tullius Cicero : triumph --
Jesus of Nazareth : being childlike --
Epictetus : divinity --
Zen proverb : enlightenment --
Omar Khayyám : the now --
St. Francis of Assisi : prayer --
Jalaluddin Rumi : grief as a blessing --
Leonardo da Vinci : balance --
Michelangelo : hope --
Sir Edward Dyer : mind power --
William Shakespeare : mercy --
John Donne : oneness --
John Milton : time --
Alexander Pope : humility --
John Keats : truth/beauty --
Percy Bysshe Shelley : passion --
William Blake : communication --
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : boldness/action --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : imagination --
William Wordsworth : Nature --
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : romantic love --
Henry David Thoreau : nonconformity --
Chief Seattle, Oren Lyons, Wolf Song, Walking Buffalo, and Luther Standing Bear : reverence for nature. (Cont.): Ralph Waldo Emerson : judgment --
Ralph Waldo Emerson : self-reliance --
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : enthusiasm --
Emily Dickinson : immortality --
Robert Browning : perfection --
Herman Melville : soulcenter --
John Greenleaf Whittier : regrets --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson : fear and risk-taking --
Walt Whitman : physical perfection --
Lewis Carroll : agelessness --
Stephen Crane : kindness --
Algernon Charles Swinburne : laughter --
William James : visualization --
Joyce Kilmer : family and home --
Ella Wheeler Wilcox : solitude --
William Jennings Bryan : mystery --
Kahlil Gibran : work --
Rudyard Kipling : inspiration --
William Butler Yeats : soul love --
Rabindranath Tagore : highest self --
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : privacy --
George Bernard Shaw : self-image --
Paramahansa Yogananda : suffering --
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : love's energy --
e.e. cummings : individuality --
Robert Frost : independence --
Dorothy Parker : appreciation. (Cont.): Langston Hughes : forgiveness --
Martin Luther King, Jr. : nonviolence --
Ogden Nash : comparison --
Mother Teresa : action/doing --
Wayne W. Dyer : awe.