Quotes of William Zinsser

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Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

- William Zinsser

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“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ If we open ourselves up to our feelings, our intuition, and our spiritual centers, we become much closer to the mystery of the Universe. ”

- Patricia Lynn

“ One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. ”

- Alain de Botton

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ A lot goes into everything but sometimes you have to sacrifice everything in order to achieve a lot. ”

- Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Repentance is not at an end, Instead it’s the beginning of how it ends. ”

- Yeth Bisto

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow