Light from Many Lamps

By: Watson, Lillian

Book Overview

A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations--selected from the wisdom of the ages--offering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life.

Here are not only the best of the world's most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stimulating biographies as well. There are selections from John Burroughs, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Shakespeare, Hippocrates, Confucius, and many others. A distillation of the greatest thoughts, ideas, and philosophies that have been handed down to us through the ages, this is a book to turn to over and over again--a book of moral, spiritual, and ethical guidance--an unfailing source of comfort and inspiration for all.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671652508
• ISBN13: 9780671652500
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Touchstone Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

This Book Belongs...

on the bedside tables of every person. When I first read it, I was feeling pretty down but found my spirits lifting with every turn of a page. Especially helpful are the chapters about Harold Russell who lost the use of his hands, but gained in strength and fortitude and Mary Pickford who writes so well about the possibilities of beginning again after failure and setback. I could go on giving example after example of the wonderful inspiration that awaits anyone who reads this book. It's the type of book you can read just a few pages from and get just what you need. You can't go wrong buying this book.

A MUST-HAVE BOOK

I have had a copy of this book for at least 15 years. I will not be without it. I have turned to this volume on so many occasions and have found comfort, solace and happiness upon reflection of almost all of the selections. This book will inspire anyone. It is a must-have book.

Review of "Light From Many Lamps"ÿ

Simply Marvellous - and I've only just started to read it

A classic inspirational read!

Light from Many Lamps takes the famous quotes, words, and writings you know and love and expands them with the "story behind the story". An inspiration to all who read it, and a great source for motivational moments.

A much loved and treasured book

This book has been enjoyed by three generations in my family. It contains priceless gems of wisdom and reflections on lifes biggest questions. I highly reccomend it to anyone!