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"The Need to Read -- Collected Ideas About the Reading Life"
Dear Readers, I hope you'll enjoy this collection of quotes about the world of literature, literacy and the refinement of intellect. Please contact me with quotes you've come across and wish to share with visitors to the site!
I select books for review bearing in mind this marvelous philosophy:
"I refuse to let someone walk through my mind with his dirty feet."
-- Gandhi
We can't live fully without books
"Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete." --Sir John Templeton
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth." --Zig Ziglar
"Be curious always! Knowledge will not acquire you--you must acquire it." --Sudie Back
"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow." --Anthony J. D'Angelo
"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time." -- John Ruskin
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." -- Thomas Mann
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives." - Amy Lowell
"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." --Mahatma Gandhi
"I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. " --Nora Ephron (1941-) US author, screenwriter
"Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life." -- Simone Weil
"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me." --Anna Quindlen
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams." --Eric Anderson
"One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to children." --Carl Sagan
"Read something positive every night and listen to something helpful every morning." --Tom Hopkins
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." -- Ana?s Nin
"It does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and the moon, nor does it take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. Wisdom is not obvious. You must see the subtle and notice the hidden to be victorious."
-Sun Szu
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. That's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes. -- Sir John Mortimer
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every Time…"
From: Kindness: Making a Difference in People's Lives: Formulas, stories, and insights
By Zelig Pliskin
Printed with Permission of Shaar Press
Every time you act kindly, the world has more kindness.
Every time you are compassionate, the world has more compassion.
Every time you smile to someone, the world is a more cheerful place.
Every time you help transform someone’s worry into serenity, the world is a more serene place.
Every time you calm someone who is angry, the world is a more pleasant place.
Every time you give money to charity, the world is a more charitable place.
Every time you encourage someone to do something for others, you are creating a partner to make a better world.
Some people spend way too much time complaining about the awful state the world is in. There is too much aggression and violence. There is too little kindness and compassion.! There is too much anger and depression and too little serenity and joy.
If someone complains and complains, the world is still full of whatever it is the person is complaining about and now more complaining has been added. Conversely, if someone spreads compassion and kindness, the world improves. The ripple effect can spread these positive qualities. A little positive action is more beneficial than a mountain full of complaints.
Every time you visit someone who is ill, you are making the world a kinder place to live in.
Every time you comfort a mourner, you are making the world a kinder place to live in.
Every time you judge someone favorably, you are making the world a kinder place to live in.
Every time you lend one of your possessions to someone, you are making the world a kinder place to live in.
Every time you help a stranger find his way, you are making the world a kinder place to live in.
What comes out from all of this is that there is no such thing as an insignificant kind act. Because every time you do an act of kindness you are elevating the world we live in.
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