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Title: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook ISBN: 0-517-20216-6 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Positively Excellent, Inspiring and Comprehensive
Comment: This is the best book on quotations covering positive topics, and since inspiration, motivation and uplifting are so often the goals of lectures and writing, it is an excellent resource.
There are hundreds, maybe thousands of quotation books. Some are massive attempts to cover all different subjects. Some cover a single subject, like love, politics or friendship. Others cover specific sports or authors. This one covers the big area of things positive. As a lecturer and writer on Positivity and Positive Psychology and a collector of over 400 quotation books, I find this one a real gem. It is loaded with thousands of great quotes you won't find anywhere else as well as popular quotes that show up in the biggest and best giant quote collections.
What's nice about it is the inclusion of spiritual quotes and quotes from eastern approaches, as well as more current psychology and new age texts, authors and speakers.
You can pick a topic for a lecture or writing project or just peruse it randomly and you can expect to be uplifted and inspired.
I had a pleasant surprise one day. After my 10 year old son was browsing it while sitting on the John browsing the book (he picked it up of his own accord and was reading it. That's great!) -- a he came out and showed me how he'd looked in the index and discovered a quote attributed to me-- one from a cover article I'd written for Writer's Digest in 1983, which had later been included among Reader's Digest's Points to Ponder.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a treasure!
Comment: I love a good quote... love to use it at the end of my letters or emails... in newsletters that I write for my church. This book of quotes compiled and arranged by John Cook is thoroughly helpful and useful, and very precious. Cook draws quotes from the Bible and also from the famous and the not-so-famous people. You can find quotes from D.H. Lawrence to an old Zen saying to Ovid to Sean Connery. The quotes can be serious and sometimes down right funny, too. The parts of the book are well-categorized into sections such as "Peace of Mind" and "Living One Day At A Time". These main parts with subdivisions with titles such as "Forgiveness", "Acceptance", "Change", "Hope" and "Prayer". There are well over 60 subcategories (7000 total quotes!) which you can find a POSITIVE quote for just about every feeling and emotion. These are also easy to cross-reference and find by looking up the person quoted in the back of the book. I find myself using this book all the time for several purposes. Sometimes I like to flip through it for encouragement and for inspiration. It's one of my most often used desk references. For any quotation lover, this book is a must.
Some of my favorites from "The Book Of Positive Quotations":
"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither." - C.S. Lewis
"Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott
Rating: 4
Summary: optimism
Comment: Postive quotations. That's what we need now days..Here's a good one on page 451: "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived, this is to have succceeded." - In this book it appears in more poetic form, although the words are the same. To the best knowledge of this reviewer it was not in Ralph Waldo Emerson's book of poems. It was in the essays. The basic twelve volumes of Emerson contain 156 essays. If this reviewer knew what essay it was in, he would say it right here. He just senses that he read it in Emerson. The book only mentions the author, not the exact source.
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Title: Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine by Reader's Digest, Readers Digest ISBN: 0895779250 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Great Quotes from Great Leaders by Peggy Anderson, Michael McKee, Career Press ISBN: 1564142868 Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: 1001 Motivational Quotes for Success: Great Quotes from Great Minds by Thomas J. Vilord ISBN: 0972517405 Publisher: Garden State Publishing Pub. Date: 05 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less), The by John M. Shanahan ISBN: 0060194111 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Change-Your-Life Quote Book by Allen Klein ISBN: 0517163101 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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