Motivation A Day

“To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.”

-Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928, New York City), is an American writer, the daughter of William Ozick and Celia Regelson.

She earned her B.A. from New York University and went on to study English Literature at Ohio State University, where she completed an M.A.

Ozick’s fiction and essays are often about Jewish American life, but she also writes criticism about American Letters by Georgetown University (2007). Furthermore, she has written and translated poetry.

“A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

-Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer, M.D., OM, (January 14, 1875 – September 4, 1965) was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg in Alsace-Lorraine, a Germanophone region which the German Empire returned to France after World War I. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical Jesus current at his time and the traditional Christian view, depicting a Jesus who expected the imminent end of the world. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of “reverence for life”,[1] expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Lambaréné Hospital in Gabon, west central Africa.

“You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

-Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humanist,[2] humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel,[3] and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations.[4][5] During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty.

Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain “the father of American literature.”[6]