#ding

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ↗

— Eudora Welty

#creativity #inspiration #literature #reading #storytelling

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today ↗

— St. Francis of Assisi

#leading-by-example #inspirational

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. ↗

— Socrates

#reading #wisdom #inspirational

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationships #understanding-others #inspirational

So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you, I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again, And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again, because I don’t know if I will. I don’t know if I will. - I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#change #endings #last-time #love #missing

Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead...." "Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible," Ludmilla says. "Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.... ↗

— Italo Calvino

#change

There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities. ↗

— Fran Veal

#inspirational #reading-books #inspirational

Raise the bar higher than your opinion... ↗

— Gino Norris

#motivation #opinion #perspective #self-understad-nding #motivational

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#inspirational #reading #teens #inspirational