#din

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#happiness #life #reading #self-sufficiency #life

Why does everyone think a girl who prefers books to people must be in want of a life? ↗

— Lauren Morrill

#bookworms #people #reading #life

This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content. ↗

— Beverly Lewis

#reading #life

People write because they have something to tell the world. People read to learn or simply to escape. Never read anything that doesn't improve your life. ↗

— S.S. Morgan

#life

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#point-of-view #understanding #life

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#life #philosophy #reading #shakespeare #life

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952) ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#life

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce. ↗

— Gabriel Zaid

#time #age

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#reading #reading-books #life

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #reading #life