#reading

"Beneath my eyes opens -- a book; I see to the bottom; the heart -- I see to the depths. I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart."

"Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be."

"Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation."

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

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."

"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

"Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again."

"Book is book."

"An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud."

"They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?"

"You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice."

"There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame."

"Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the saints and the sinners, real or imagined – reading shows you how to be a better human being."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?"asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends,"says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it."

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."

"Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining."

"Your mind is your library of what you read."

"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world."

"There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere."