#books

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#beautiful #bookstores #humor #so #beauty

The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain from the little shelf of books on the opposite wall. Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist of the mind created and set vibrating with music, as a flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken-soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured into the ear. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#reading #music

There's never a dull day When you're beaten by nonfiction. ↗

— Jay Farrar

#music #music

People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems. ↗

— James Dillehay

#mlm-books #network-marketing #network-marketing-books #business

Of course I loved books more than people. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#love

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#reading #travel #change

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book. ↗

— Malcolm X

#inspirational #literacy #religious #change

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They depen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#reading #writing #change