Inspiration Quote by Mark Twain — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?”

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”

“A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.”

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

“It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.”

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”