Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

The world belongs to those who read.

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on books. I offered him free books, but he insisted on giving me his quarters. He walked away filled with joy as if he possessed the world's riches in his hands. In a way, he did. He left me smiling and knowing that he was wealthier than many others... (01-21-10)

Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Its better to hold a book between your Fingers than to Hold a Cigarette.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.