Most days I’ll be sharing some of the quotes that have inspired me, made me smile or just made me think. I’ll be posting the full set here each week too and hope you’ll also share some of the quotes that have inspired you in the comments section below.

Classic Quotes #48

Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
~ Lao Tzu

Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
~ Gustave Flaubert

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
~ Saul Bellow, Herzog

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God