#books

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#inspirational-attitude #lifelong-learning #reading #attitude

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#reading #attitude

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

DRAMA: Be careful about being baited into the personal battles and confusion of others. If you want to help someone out emotionally, be certain he or she has made a commitment to the sacrifice before you intervene for his or her success. If you don’t, you’re likely to be drained of all your healthy energy with his or her selfish petty, pitiful pretending and negotiating. Be encouraged but more importantly if you can’t make it better, whatever you do don’t make it worse, for them and especially yourself ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#book-quotes #books-reading #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #oprah-winfrey-favorite-quote

Just because you start attempting to do right, doesn’t mean people will let you forget about what you’ve done wrong…Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#books #else #furnishes #furniture #house

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty

One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home. ↗

— Jacqueline Kelly

#peach-pits #peaches #reading #white-knights #life

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #beauty #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #grace #haiku

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#books #markus-zusak #reading #beauty