Celebrate A Simple Life
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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Until You See Their Bookshelves
You never really understand other people until you see their bookshelves.
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The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
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Chewing Gum Can Help You Read Faster
Chewing gum can help you read faster. It distracts your brain from outside stimuli by giving it something to focus on.
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Read Interesting Minds
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Stories Are Incredibly Important
Stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. ~ Neil Gaiman
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Books Are Like Flypaper
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. ~ Cornelia Funke
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A Book And A Shady Nook
Oh for a book and a shady nook, either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about, where I may read at all my ease, both of the new and old, for a jolly good book, whereon to look, is better to me than gold. ~ John Wilson
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Small Habits Are Underestimated
Reading 20 pages a day = 30 books a year. Saving $10 a day = $3,650 per year. Running 1 mile a day = 365 miles a year. Becoming 1% better per day = 37% better a year. Small habits are underestimated.
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If A Book Is Well Written
If a book is well written I always find it too short. ~ Jane Austen
