Thursday, February 27, 2025

Reading quotes

Some really beautiful quotes about books and reading: 
1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” —Dr. Seuss
2. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honoré de Balzac
3. "There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."— Walt Disney
4. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw
5. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor
. “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
7. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” — Fran Lebowitz
8. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” — Mary Schmich
9. “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” — Anna Quindlen
10. “My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X
11. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
12. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” — Jeanette Winterson
13. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
14. “A book is a way for your imagination to be wild and free.” — Unknown
15. “Take a good book to bed with you – books do not snore.” — Thea Dorn
16. “A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.” — Lisa Kleypas
17. “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” — Emma Thompson
18. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin
19. "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." — Emily Dickinson
20. “No. I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.” — Sarah J. Maas
21. “When you lose yourself in a book the hours grow wings and fly.”— Chloe Thurlow
22. “The world belongs to those who read.” — Rick Holland
23. “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.” — Diane Duane
24. “To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”— Geraldine Brooks
25. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling

Sunday, February 09, 2025

Grief varies

Grief affects you differently. It varies not only from person to person but also the situation. The same person can grieve very differently due to differeny losses in different stages of their lives. In one case the grief may present itself loudly and uncontrollably putting one in a frenzy of activity and in another case it is mind numblingly quiet and closes down all activity. Both are just as deep.