#ok

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #joke #love #romance #smile

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#inspirational #inspirational

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#look #matters #see #you

We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past. ↗

— Nick Park

#films #forward #get #in the past #keep

And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture. ↗

— Michael Schiavo

#bona #bona fide #doctors #fide #get

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#companionship #inspirational #inspirational

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#readers #readers-and-writers #reading #reading-books #reasons-for-reading

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE! ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#inspirational #life #inspirational

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journy of exploration and discovery. ↗

— David Almond

#advice #book #books #covers #discovery