#din

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications. ↗

— Manuel Rivas

#writing #life

What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of books or 'covering' a fixed number of selections, or anyway striving for the blessed state of having read this, or the other. Having read a book means nothing. Reading a book may be the most tremendous experience of your life; having read it is an item in your memory, part of your receding past... Why we have that odd faith in the magic of having read a book, I don't know. We don't apply the same principle elsewhere: We don't believe in having heard Mendelssohn's violin concerto... I say, don't read the classics -- try to discover your own classics; every life has its own. ↗

— Rudolf Flesch

#inspirational #reading #experience

Many who read their Bibles make the great mistake of confining all their reading to certain portions of the Bible which they enjoy. In this way they get no knowledge of the Bible as a whole. They miss altogether many of the most important phases of Bible truth. ↗

— R.A. Torrey

#reading #life

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. ↗

— Arlaina Tibensky

#books #characters #emotions #reading #life

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? ↗

— Shandy L. Kurth

#banned-books #controversy #reading #writing #life

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if. ↗

— Avakruth

#confusion #life #meaning #understanding #life

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#bookworms #heavenly-rewards #judgment #reading #love

[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#reading #life

Misunderstanding kills the person who claimed it & scratches the mirror of his life & leaves specks on his soul. ↗

— Behnam Rajabpoor

#life

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#conflict #contentment #finding-answers #going-with-the-flow #inner-fulfilment