#read

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#breadth #captive #development #fences #get

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reading #self-discovery #youth #life

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#came #ears #greek #mythology #our

Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. Confinement is not a part of your destiny. Your life purpose is to take the totality of your negative experiences, roll them up into one, and use them positively to lay the foundation for your destiny. ↗

— B.L. Brown

#good-read #inspirational #life-change #love #peace-on-earth

Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem. ↗

— James Lovelock

#been #disinformation #global #global warming #main

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#die #humanity #immortal #life #long

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. ↗

— James Madison

#any #apt #classes #fill #good

I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#already #else #endeavor #full #good

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ↗

— John Buchan

#elicit #greatness #humanity #into #leadership