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The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#wisdom #men

You start into it, inflamed by an idea, full of hope, full indeed of confidence. If you are properly modest, you will never write it at all, so there has to be one delicious moment when you have thought of something, know just how you are going to write it, rush for a pencil, and start buoyed up with exaltation. You then get into difficulties, don’t see your way out, and finally manage to accomplish more or less what you first meant to accomplish, though losing confidence all the time. Having finished it, you know it is absolutely rotten. A couple of months later, you wonder if it may not be all right after all. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#books #inspiration #writing #inspirational

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#books #men

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#philosophy-of-life #self-help-book #inspirational

You're as good as you reciprocate. ↗

— Lights Poxlietner

#lights-bokan #lights-poxleitner #reciprocation #inspirational

Book is a detergent which cleans the dirt of ignorance and bad thoughts from our mind. Read books!, befriend books!! REMEMBER: Mind too is one kind of a book, develop the skill to read your own mind. All the book existing into this world has wander the mind of our great author before they came into existence. ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again. ↗

— Rebecca Romijn

#begs #both #cook #dating #disasters

If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit ↗

— Stephen King

#book #inspire #stephen-king #writer #inspirational

But in a private library, you can at any moment converse with Socrates or Shakespeare or Carlyle or Dumas or Dickens or Shaw or Barrie or Galsworthy. And there is no doubt that in these books you see these men at their best. They wrote for you. They "laid themselves out," they did their ultimate best to entertain you, to make a favorable impression. You are necessary to them as an audience is to an actor; only instead of seeing them masked, you look into their innermost heart of heart. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#men

Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door. ↗

— Birdy Fogh

#self-help-books #inspirational