#books

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#books #inspirational #ziggy-marley #inspirational

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. ↗

— Elizabeth McCracken

#marriage

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. ↗

— René Descartes

#reading #men

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block. ↗

— James Rollins

#books #i #time #two #writer

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read! ↗

— A.A. Patawaran

#reading-books #time #writing-inspiration #inspirational

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heaven #land #men

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#god #religion #men

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#men

Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door. ↗

— Birdy Fogh

#self-help-books #inspirational