#book

Most of us who turn to any subject with 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

#inspiration #knowledge #passion #inspirational

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind. Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#inner-world #melancholy #men #reading #men

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists -- with it all things are possible. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#imagination #inspirational #key #imagination

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery. ↗

— Charlotte Mason

#friends #men

I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand. ↗

— Walker Percy

#men

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or low you take it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. ↗

— Craig Mercier

#help #helping-others #inspirational #motivationa-and-inspirational #motivational

Imagine what humans could do, if we all worked together like an ant colony...minus the queen. ↗

— Justin D. Hill

#imagination

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#inspirational #inspirational

I could recognise his soul in mine as much as he could find me in his. Our sole existences seemed to have been for this very moment when nothing else mattered. ↗

— X. Williamson

#hope #inspirational-quotes #life #love #paranormal-romance