Michael Angier has been collecting inspirational quotations, quips, and one-liners from some of the world's greatest writers for over 20 years.
We're happy to share them with you.
Zen Proverbs
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
After enlightenment, the laundry.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
Maureen Dowd
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Chinese Proverbs
Outside noisy, inside empty.
If you plan for one year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate mankind.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
He who treads softly goes far.
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not
Tobias Wolff
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Stephen C Paul
You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way.
J Paul Getty
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Nelson DeMille
We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.
Julia Soul
If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
Daniel O'Connell
Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Jack Schwartz, expert in human potential
We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.
Charles Schultz, creator of "Peanuts"
In the book of life's questions, the answers are not in the back.
Arnold Glasgow
Make your life a mission-not an intermission.
Stanley Marcus
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
James A. Michener, historical novelist, born 1907
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Zen Buddhist Text
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
A Collection of Inspiring Quotations
Michael Angier has been collecting inspirational quotations, quips, and one-liners from some of the world's greatest writers for over 20 years.
We're happy to share them with you
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