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| Author | Japan Hiroshi Kanda |
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| Category | Famous quotes explained / Famous quotes of the world / Proverbs and sayings |
| Language of the book | English |
| Published | October 28, 2026 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Product number | TB-W0005-EN |
| Reading time | About 3 h 50 min (at 230 words a minute) |
| Print-ready PDF | A5 · interior PDF and cover PDF (with 3 mm bleed) · 256 pages |
CategoriesWords and readingFamous quotes explained
CategoriesThought, philosophy and religionFamous quotes of the world
Fifty-seven sayings on how to live, written between 1900 and 1944 by poets, scientists, teachers, a nurse, a pilot, a monk and a young girl who kept a diary — each one told with the life behind it, its source and year, and two echoes: similar words from older teachers and traditional sayings around the world.
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Fifty-seven lights from the early 1900s, and their echoes around the world, for the road of an ordinary day.
Rilke on loving the questions. Machado on the road that is made by walking. Lu Xun on hope. Gibran on work as love made visible. Kaneko Misuzu on being different and good. Tagore on keeping faith in people. In the first half of the twentieth century, a time of new machines, great wars and many fresh starts, people in every part of the world thought hard about how to live, and many of their answers still shine.
The chapters follow the order of time, from 1900 to 1944. Each one gives the saying and where it was written, tells the life behind it and asks what it means for an ordinary day. Then it places two echoes beside it — words from ancient teachers in East Asia, South Asia, Africa and Europe, or traditional sayings passed on by many generations — and ends with one small thing to try today.
Every saying comes from a person who died long ago and is given with its source and year. Popular sayings that famous people never said are left out, and where the well-known form of a quotation differs from the real words, the book tells the real story. A warm and hopeful book for anyone, at any age.
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