Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.
Every single book is a challenge.
He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.
You and I are not Muslim, because we are born in a Muslim family. You and I are not Muslim, because you read a book about Islam, or saw a Youtube video and decided to become Muslim. We are Muslim, because Allah chose us. Allah chose us.
I don’t believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books – Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
Fascinating, Doidge’s book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
I can’t imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that’s all there was.
I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.
When I didn’t have friends, I had books.
Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
Books were my pass to personal freedom.