Reading is like opening the window to see the world. If you don't read, you don't learn what is going on in the world. A good writer and author have done a lot of research and attributed a lot of time to learn, to collect the information and to produce the best idea that inspires and bring a the great benefit to the positive life. If you like reading, you will see everything and everywhere. If you don't read, you see nothing and go nowhere. we hope these famous and inspirational quotes will inspire you and bring you to the new and beautiful planet.
Famous Quotes about Reading
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
-George R.R. Martin
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” -Harper Lee
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” -C.S. Lewis
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” -Groucho Marx
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.” -Roald Dahl
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” -Stephen King
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” -Jules Verne
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” -Malcolm X
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” - Roald Dahl
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” -George Bernard Shaw
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” -Abraham Lincoln
“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” -Mark Twain
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” -Napoléon Bonaparte
“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.” -Voltaire
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” -J.K. Rowling
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.” -Albert Einstein
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” - Maureen Corrigan
“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” - Arnold Lobel
“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat.” - E. Nesbit
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” - Carl Sagan
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” - Roald Dahl
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
- Ezra Pound
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
-Walt Disney
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Nelson Mandela
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
-Steve Jobs
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
-Oprah Winfrey
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
-James Cameron
Life is what happens when you're busy making
other plans.
-John Lennon
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
-Mother Teresa
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
-Margaret Mead
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. -Aristotle
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
-Anne Frank
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
-Margaret Mead
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
-Helen Keller
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
-Aristotle
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
-Anne Frank
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will face many defeats in life, but never let
yourself be defeated.
-Maya Angelou
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” - Betty Smith
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” - Garrison Keillor
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” - Dr. Seuss
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
- Napoléon Bonaparte
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” - Italo Calvino
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” - Mary Schmich
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” - Mary Wortley Montagu
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” - Emma Thompson
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” - Roald Dahl
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.” - Aphra Behn
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” - W. Somerset Maugham
“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” - Bill Watterson
“These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.” - Roald Dahl
“I guess there are never enough books.” - John Steinbeck
“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.” - Voltaire
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” - J.K. Rowling
“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” - Anne Herbert
“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” - Emilie Buchwald
“I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” - H.P. Lovecraft
“Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people – people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.” - E.B. White
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.” - David Levithan
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
- Groucho Marx
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
- Albert Einstein
“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.” - Patrick Rothfuss
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away” - Emily Dickinson
“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.” - Edgar Allan Poe
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
- Henry Ward Beecher
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
- Woody Allen
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
“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
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” - Jane Austen
“Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.” - Carl Sagan
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” - Socrates
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.”
- Audrey Hepburn
“Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.” - Gary Paulsen
“From the reading of ‘good books’ there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.” - Gordon B. Hinckley
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.” - Voltaire
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” - Mortimer J. Adler
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” - C.S. Lewis
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright.” - Gustave Flaubert
“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.” - Wisława Szymborska
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” - Holbrook Jackson
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.” - Anita Merina
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” - David Quammen
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”
- Kate DiCamillo
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
- P.J. O’Rourke
Be Grateful
Poet: Julie Hebert, ©2016
In life we must be grateful,
For all that we own.
There are too many people,
Who are lost and all alone.
We are given so much,
Yet seem to forget.
These things that we have,
Carry so much debt.
Be grateful for what you have,
Show all your praise.
For we are the lucky ones,
Be happy and amaze.
But most importantly,
Share your blessings with others.
To us it is just stuff,
But a treasure to another.
ONE
One word can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream;
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald Spring.
One smile can bring a friendship,
One handclasp can lift a soul;
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One cheer can obtain a goal.
One vote can change a Nation,
One sunbeam can lift a room;
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.
One look can change two lives;
One kiss can make love bloom.
One step must start each journey,
One word must start each prayer;
One hope can raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what’s true;
One life can make a difference,
One life is me and you…
-Shawnee Kellie
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
- P.J. O’Rourke
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” - Jane Smiley
“Beware of the person of one book.” - Thomas Aquinas
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” - C.S. Lewis
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” - Paul Sweeney
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglas
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps
““You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me.” - Strickland Gillilan
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo
" Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
" In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln
"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." -Albert Einstein
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." -Henry David Thoreau
