Inspiring Words

Uplifting Thoughts from Ancient and Modern Sources

World literature is a rich resource for contemporary living. Writers, past and present, in their efforts to plumb the depths of life's mysteries, have used poetry, prose, maxims, and other genres to chart its wonders. Below is a selection of some of those we feel touch the core of the human experience.

Whoever has walked with truth, generates life...

Ancient Sumerian Proverb

...simplicity, patience, compassion, these are your greatest treasures.

Tao Te Ching

Weird oft preserves the man undoomed if he undaunted be...

Beowulf

...all good things are wild and free.

Henry David Thoreau

(in "Walking")