#read

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#life

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#life

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I’m reading always reminds me of whatever’s happening in my life during that time. ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#kelsey #reading #the-thing-about-the-truth #life

One life to read! ↗

— Nakia R. Laushaul

#books #read #life

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#life

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#reading #life

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#escape #literature #reading #words #life

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? ↗

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#reading #work #life

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish. ↗

— S.I. Hayakawa

#reading #life