#reading

"When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours."

"Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa."

"If you love books enough, books will love you back."

"I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things."

"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."

"So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things."

"Like my grandpa, who dropped out of school to farm, I have a 4th grade education. Of course, I have a college degree, too. Both require the same reading level."

"All that you seek is hidden in book."

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."

"We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books."

"Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city."

"A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement."

"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book."

"Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time."

"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."