maxims and meditations is a book of aphorisms, maxims, and reflections. my goal is to curate the timeless wisdom that can help modern people live better lives.
when I was young, I read a lot of philosophy and self-help books to get guidance and understanding. i noticed a lot of common patterns -- a lot of ideas were repeated across different authors and traditions. i thought: what are the timeless truths that have been expressed countless times and in countless ways? the result is this book, which is a collection of maxims and meditations from philosophers, religious figures, and historical figures. each page contains one "truth", and four to eight different expressions of that truth. here is a sneak peak of the book:
Accept the world as it is, and change the things you can
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.
Seneca
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.
Elbert Hubbard
Failure is a stepping stone to success
Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.
Theodore Roosevelt
There are one thousand lessons in defeat, but only one in victory.
Confucius
The pen is mightier than the sword
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Maxims and Meditations
$20.00
- 92 curated timeless truths expressed in different ways by people like Aristotle, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Napoleon, Nietzsche, Carl Jung, and other historical thinkers.
- topics: well-being, virtue, love and friendship, achieving success, worldly wisdom, politics
- use it to grow as a person, as a reference book for public speaking or writing, to reflect, to teach your children, as a coffee-table book ...
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This book is like Jordan Peterson, except if the goal was to use as few words as possible instead of as many words as possible.
John Smith
Founder of Acme WidgetsThis is a really good book. You should read it. Trust me bro!
Fredrik Skjelvik
AuthorI've become more articulate after reading this book. I sprinkle my sentences with bangers. Why should I say ..
Amy Smith
ProfessorI use this to come up with sermon ideas, and to enrich the language I use when preaching. Highly recommended.
Dave Johnson
PriestThe reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
René Descartes