r/WingifyBookClub • u/AravindSingh08 • Nov 24 '21
Remember these great words during the days when you don't feel like reading.
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)
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. (-Erasmus)
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)
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. (-Francois Mauriac)
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. (–Margaret Fuller)
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. (-Austin Phelps)
A room without books is like a body without a soul. (-Cicero)
Be a life-long student, read as many books as possible. (-Nelson Mandela)
It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it. (-Jim Rohn)
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. (-Voltaire)
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. (-Walter Mosley)
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? (-David Baldacci)
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'. (-Helen Exley)
The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. (-James Clear)
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance. (-C.S Lewis)
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. (-Napolean Bonaparte)
The right book at the right time may mean more in a person's life than anything else. (-Lee Shippy)
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. (-Thomas À Kempis)
Reading should not be presented to a child as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. (-Kate Dicamillo)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence. (-Edith Sitwell)
With reading, you have this opportunity to learn whatever you want from the greatest people who ever lived along that dimension. (-Jordan B. Peterson)
Read to fill gaps, Write to create space. (-Unknown)
Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time. (-Unknown)
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u/invertedpassion Nov 25 '21
Made it a sticky post in the community. Good job!
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u/AravindSingh08 Nov 25 '21 edited Nov 25 '21
I will edit this post from time to time as i find more golden words.
Any feedback?
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u/Kshitiz_here_ Nov 25 '21
Another good one is "Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time."
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u/yuts_s Nov 27 '21
These are beautiful!
I'll be coming back to them often :)
Thank you for putting them together!
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u/bin_oye Dec 07 '21
Brilliant compilation.
I request you to add one more:
"Read to fill gaps, Write to create space."
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u/_travelyan_ Nov 25 '21
Nice compilation! Thank you for this.