Quotes of William Zinsser

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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

- William Zinsser

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“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ Time is persistent, and we need to make the best of it. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora

“ Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. ”

- Ernest Shackleton

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ A dream comes true through repeated actions. ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Family where life begins & love never ends. ”

- Unknown

“ Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Bagiku ada sesuatu yang paling berharga dan hakiki dalam kehidupan: 'dapat mencintai, dapat iba hati, dapat merasai kedukaan'. Tanpa itu semua maka kita tidak lebih dari benda. Berbahagialah orang yang masih mempunyai rasa cinta, yang belum sampai kehilangan benda yang paling bernilai itu. Kalau kita telah kehilangan itu maka absurdlah hidup kita. ”

- Soe Hok Gie