Quotes on BOOKS, LIBRARY and READING and LISTENING

A BOOK

A BOOK is a spell that can charm one away
On a cloud or a wing for a year or a day.
A book is a play that begins with a line
Woven from thought from the fabric of time.
A book holds a world of all that has been
Of dreams unfulfilled, of dreams yet unseen.
The things one imagines can really come true,
It can change someone's life -
It could happen to you.
~Dawn Lawrence, The People's Friend Special 2017

Paddington Library

September 21, 2019

“A library is a place vibrating with ideas .” ~Mary Kunhardt Lodge

"A book is a dream you hold in your hand." ~Neil Gaiman

A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ~Garrison Keillora

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." ~G. C. Lichtenberg

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” ~Salman Rushdie

"A book is like a tree. Light is needed to see the life and feel the soul of each word contained in every leaf, and produce the fruit of wisdom." ~Jeffrey Cejero 

"A book is like a window in which the beams of light shines through, the moment you open it." ~Leah C. Dancel, September 17, 2021

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." ~Franz Kafka

"A book of quotations can never be complete." ~Robert M. Hamilton 

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." ~Edward P. Morgan

 "A closed mind is like a closed book just like a block of wood." ~Chinese Proverb

"A good book can soothe away a lot of our pain!" ~Mary Balogh

"A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice." ~ Anon

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." ~William Styron

“A home without books is like a tree without birds.” ~from Live Learn Library

Photo: Max Webber Library

Blacktown NSW 

"A library is home to hungry minds in search for knowledge." ~Leah C. Dancel,  July 14, 2021

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"A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth"~ Anon

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ~George R.R. Martin

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." ~Mark Twain

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once." ~George RR. Martin

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~Cicero

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." ~William Robertson Davies

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” ~Thomas Wharton

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." ~Maya Angelou

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." ~Isaac Asimov

"Australians read more books per capita than any other nation and the Australian book industry is one of the most vibrant in the English-speaking world." ~Jon Page, Australian Booksellers Association president

"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." ~Paxton Hood

"Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller." ~Stephen Leveen

"Books are a diamond in the rough times." ~Anon

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." ~ Stephen King

"Books are cold and certain friends." ~Victor Hugo

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” ~Mark Twain

“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” ~Edwin Percy Whipple from Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out." ~Anon

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them." ~Samuel Butler

"Books are like little immortal treats that I get to eat over and over again." ~Unattributed from Literature is my Utopia

“Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.” ~Glenda Millard, The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.” ~Alan Bennett

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." ~Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are not my whole life, but they make my life whole.” ~Anon

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." ~Barbara W. Tuchman

"Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." ~Jesse Lee Bennett

“Books are uniquely portable magic.” ~Stephen King

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'." ~Helen Exley

"Books don't just go with you. They take you where you've never been." ~Isabella Thordsen

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~Plato

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secret of our own" -William Hazzlit

"Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again - for like true friends, they never fail us, never cease to instruct us, never cloy." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.” ~Francis Bacon

"Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library." ~Michael Caine

"Do not lend your books to others, because they will not return them to you.  The books in my library are those that have been lent to me by others." ~Anatole France

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?" ~Virginia Wool

"Everyone is a reader. Some just haven't found their favourite book yet." ~Anon

"Every wrinkle on our faces is a story lived with courage, pride, smile, cry, love. I'm like the words of an open book, peeled by time, before the eyes of the world." ~Alda Merini

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." ~Martin Luther

“Fancy things never appealed to me. I like the sweet, simple things. I like to watch the sunrise on my old front porch with a warm cup of coffee. I like good books on rainy afternoons. I like to grow things. And I like the way it feels to be surrounded by real friends and people I love.” ~Brooke Hampton

"Few things are as lovely as having an uninterrupted hour with a good book." ~Stephen King

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." ~Anon

"Good friends,  good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." ~Mark Twain

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~John Muir

"He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends." ~Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” ~Bertolt Brecht

"I'm enjoying the sound of rain pattering on the roof of my cozy little abode. It is the perfect musical accompaniment to a good book." ~Edie Talley

"I am an open book in a closed book store. You'll have to read me through the window." ~Laura Wheeler

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn” ~Robert Frost

"I believe the nicest and the sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but those that bring simple little pleasures, following one after another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they made me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me." ~Martin Buber

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ~Groucho Marx

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul." ~Rumi

"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere." ~Clifford Geertz

"I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. Books are safer than other people anyway." ~Neil Gaiman

"I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life." ~Linus Pauling, Scientist (American Library Association "Libraries Change Lives" Campaign, 1995.)

"I read my eyes out, and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read." ~John Adams

"I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place." ~Anne Tyler

 “I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had think of bottling.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zapon, The Angels Game 

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~John Burroughs

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” ~Harold Kushner

"I thought we were both on the same page but it turns out that we were reading different books." ~Anon

"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets." ~Dolly Parton

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ~Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If bookworms ruled the world, bookstores would have shopping carts." ~Books Direct

“If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.” ~Lord Byron

"If it is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." ~S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ~Toni Morrison

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Reading

"If we could read the minds of other animals we would find only truths." ~A.D. Williams

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ~Stephen King

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~Cicero

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

“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.” ~Mark Twain

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own." ~Anna Quindlen

"In the fields, she stopped and took a deep breath of the flower-scented air. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. And for a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to absorb its old enchantment." ~Boris Pasternak

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." ~Jane Hamilton

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life." ~Victor Hugo

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.” ~Catherine M. Valente

"It takes a library to raise a child. " ~Goodwill Librarian Poster via BackChat Speech Pathology 

"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone." ~William Herondale 

"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force." ~Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris

"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have." ~Loyd Alexander

"Keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little." ~Voltaire

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon." ~Ikkyu

“Lend us a book we can read up alone” ~Anon

"Let's be reasonable and add an eight day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." ~Lena Dunham

"Librarians are not just a keeper of books, but the keepers of dreams, the bridge builders of imagination, and the guardians of worlds waiting to be discovered." ~James Patterson 

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read." ~Cassandra Clare

"Life is like a book. You are the author and every day is a new page. If people in your life are turning it into a soap opera, get rid of them in your next chapter." ~FB/WICKED HUMOUR

"Love is the religion, and the universe is the book." ~Rumi

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." ~Charles Caleb Colton

“Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents” ~Ezra Pound

"Men, like books, are large and small, quartos, folios and tiny volumes. Some are fairer bound than others, and some that lack in show make up in durability of binding and in the value of their contents. Some are pious and some profane, some full of wisdom and some full of folly, but each must have a final page with the word 'Finis'." ~Richard Gove

"Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.' ~George Eliot

“Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Libraries.”    ~Peter Porter

“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity” ~Malcolm X

"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle

"My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief." ~Marcus Valerius Martial on Plagiarism

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.” ~Anatole France

"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over." ~Eugene Field

“No matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ~Confucius

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~Robert Frost

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.” ~Mickey Spillane

"Nothing like a good old hard copy of a book. The SMELL of the pages quite intoxicating, wanting to spread those covers and ravish those words within. The feel of your fingers caressing paper filled with scenes." ~Kay Swan Mills

"October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book." ~John Sinor

“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book resting unopened in its slot on the shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” ~from The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen via Mary Balogh

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper." ~Michael Cunningham

“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.” ~John Muir

"One of the best pleasures in life … is to read a book in total silence." ~Anon

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"Part of being a writer is being a strong, avid reader." ~Ann Eckhart

"People is like a book. It has so many chapters in their lives. Let’s not judge anyone from what we see and heard. Read the whole book and know the full story before we do. I think it’s being kind." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” ~Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

"Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read." ~Paulo Coelho

"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river." ~Virginia Woolf

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Reading can seriously damage your ignorance." ~Mindset of Greatness 

"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that." ~John Green

"Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours." ~Anon

"Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are." ~Mason Cooley

"Reading in bed before sleep, the luxury of entering another world as if from above..." ~Maxine Kumin

"Reading is a delightful pastime that increases knowledge." ~Leah C. Dancel, May 23, 2014

"Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the author's, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his." ~Bennett Cerf (1898-1971)

"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual." ~Jorge Luis Borges

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.” ~from "Agnes Grey" By Anne Brontë

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." ~Marcel Proust

‪"Reading is the gateway to life." ~Mary Waite‬

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~Joseph Addison

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch." ~R Steele

"Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss." ~Nora Ephron

"Reading opens doors to a world of choice and opportunity." ~The Indigenous Literacy Foundation

"Reading something unfamiliar widens our horizon." ~Alex Umali

"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." ~Hazel Rochman

"READING. That place where you're by yourself but you are never alone." ~Mary Balogh

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head." ~Paul Auster

"Reading won't fix the problem, but it will put me in a lot better mood when I feel like dealing with it." ~Anon

"Reading won't solve your problems. But then again, neither will housework." ~Susan Wiggs

"She reads books as one would breath air, to fill up and live." ~Annie Dillard

"Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again." ~Louisa May Alcott

"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Francis Bacon

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some of the most wonderful poems ever written by mankind are hidden in books old and dusty and long forgotten." ~Anon

“Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.” ~Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

"Speak Love: The story of your life isn’t written in a book, it’s told by the kindness in your heart." ~Robert Clancy

"The act of reading is a partnership. the author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home." ~J. Picoult

"The beauty of reading is that I can be here...  and there at the same time." ~Anon

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." ~Anon

"The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience." ~Michael Silverblatt

The bookshop has a thousand books,
All colours, hues and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges."~Anon (TFBFG 1987/CAH)

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity." ~Israel Regardie

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." ~Robert Frost

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is." ~Allan Bloom (1930-1992) American Philosopher, Classicist, and Academic

"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap. It consoles. It distracts. It excites. It gives you knowledge of the world and experience of the wide kind. It is a moral illumination." ~Elizabeth Hardwick

"The health of our civilisation..... and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries." ~Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

"The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn. ~Alvin Tofler

"The library is an arena of possibility, openings both a window into the soul and a door onto the world." ~Rita Dove 

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.” ~Mark Twain

"The more a child reads, the likelier they are able to understand the emotions of others," ~Anon, Book Facts

"The more we read books, the likelier our ability to understand better the emotions of others. Read. Take advantage of the Net." ~Rafael Alunan III, 8 January 2017)

"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files

"The purpose of reading is not just raw knowledge. It's not that it is part of the human experience. It helps you find meaning,  understand yourself,  and make your life better." ~Ryan Holiday 

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past

centuries." ~Rene Descartes   

“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. Constant reading will pull you into a place (a mind-set, if you like the phrase) where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what just lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." ~St. Augustine

 "The world is a book. 

And we are all travellers.

The one who travels by foot ,

Only reads the chapter.

But the one who reads the book,

travels the whole world."

~Reynante Tammidao

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." ~Bertrand Russell

"There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book." ~Anon

"There is a great deal to be learned from books and school but you also have to get out into the world and experience things for yourself." ~Sean Hemingway on what he's learned from his grandfather.

“There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees…in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum, is capable of giving … How often is the soul of man - especially that of a child - deprived because one does not put him in contact with nature.” ~Maria Montessori

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." ~Emily Dickinson

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't." ~Gail Carlson Levine

"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you." ~Doris Lessing

"There's so much more to a book than just the reading." ~Maurice Sendak

“They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio)

"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

"Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to: enrich minds, increase intelligence, reduce stress, increase knowledge, increase concentration. It's called READING." ~Steven Aitchison

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ~W. Somerset Maugham

"To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the book that tells of her past." ~Dr. Jose P. Rizal

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." -Victor Hugo

"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one." ~Chinese Proverb

"To read is to empowerTo empower is to writeTo write is to influenceTo influence is to changeTo change is to live." ~Jane Evershed

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority only read the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." ~Emile Zola  

"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth." John Lubbock

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." ~W.E.B. Du Bois

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?" ~Anthony Trollope 

"When I want to read a good book I write one." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"When reading, we don't fall in love with the characters' appearance. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls." ~Anonymous

"When  the elderly die,  a library is lost and volumes of wisdom and knowledge are gone." ~A'Ho

"When two people read books in each other’s company it is considered companionable silence, or mutual intellectual interest, or a romantic version of solitude from which one is sure they will surface shortly to discuss what they have read and marvel at each other’s insights." ~Emma Brockes

"When you read a line that is so well-written, you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute." ~Anon

"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books." ~Richard Wright

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow
In more light." ~Vera Nazarian

"Wisdom discloses Truth in ways that cannot even be explained with a thousand books, a million teachings from religious figures, or a hundred million facts memorized and assimilated. Wisdom is so pure, that even language corrupts it." ~The Mind Unleashed

“Woe be to him that reads but one book.” ~George Herbert

"Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read." ~Raymond Carver

“You are the books you read, the films you watch,
the music you listen to, the people you meet,
the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in.
You are what you take from these.
You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air,
the brightest light and the darkest corner.

You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life.
You are every single second of every single day.
So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence.
Let the words run through your veins and let the colors fill your mind
until there is nothing left to do but explode.
There are no wrong answers.
Inspiration is everything.
Sit back, relax, and take it all in.
Now, go out and create something.”
~Jac Vanek

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~C.S. Lewis

"You have woken up late, lost and perplexed. But don't rush to your books looking for knowledge. Pick up a flute instead and let your heart play." ~Rumi

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ~Paul Sweeney

"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books." ~C.G Jung

"You will be the same person you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read." ~Charlie Jones

"You will learn by reading, but you will understand with love." ~Shams Tabrizi

"Your life is a book; Make it a bestseller." ~Shannon Gray

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OTHERS:

“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.”
Katharine Whitehorn

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage." ~Robert McNamara

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." ~Henry Ward Beecher

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” ~Anon

"Being a bookworm means having non-fictional feelings for fictional characters." ~The Bookworm's Diary

"He  who has a garden and a library wants for nothing." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero 

“I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”  ~Tahereh Mafi

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” ~Anna Quindlen 

“Never argue with someone whose TV is bigger than their bookshelf.” ~Emilia Clarke

"Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Take time to listen to tbose  things that speak without words." ~Samantha C. Lourie, Butterflies and Pebbles

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.
When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves.
We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost.
That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

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THANK YOU

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