#books

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live". ↗

— Jane Evershed

#inspirational #change

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life. ↗

— Helen Exley

#change #inspiration #life #reading #thought-provoking

I think a good book is a good book forever. I don't think they get less good because times change. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#change

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#change

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#joseph-conrad #life

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#change

That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you. ↗

— Jessica Zafra

#change

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#librarians #life

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#life #writing #change

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#mind #reading #change