Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

place-place-sense-freedom-rid-ties-responsibilities-duties-unknown-odd-people

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

W. Somerset Maugham's Popular Quotes

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

- W. Somerset Maugham

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. W…

- W. Somerset Maugham

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

- W. Somerset Maugham

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

- W. Somerset Maugham

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, i…

- W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it whil…

- W. Somerset Maugham