All Quotes By Tag: Reading

“Get this — they don’t want you to think for yourself because if you do, you are practically unstoppable.”

“You must learn to distinguish what is there to entertain the minds of the oblivious, and what can be material for you to build an impressive library. Material that will change the way you think and have a tremendous impact on your life.”

“Your problems are not by any means unique, which is a good thing. This means whatever hardships you are currently facing, you can get a glimpse of the future by going back in time and read how other people survived and thrived during similar difficulties.”

“Reading these books will not only further your own advancements, but you will also avoid repeating the greatest mistakes in history.”

“Read books that are thought-provoking and challenge your current beliefs. Entertain all kinds of possibilities and ideas before coming up with any conclusions.”

“You must strive to attain self-mastery and educate yourself so you can be of service to your desires and the world in a not so distant future.”

“School is not designed for you and your aspirations. Therefore, you must always be on the lookout for new and exciting ways to learn skills that will aid you on your path toward achieving mastery.”

“One book will often not change your life so dramatically that nothing will ever be the same again. But if you play the margin game to perfection, where you push the envelope ever so slightly, the right books over a lifetime will determine if you will lead an average life in oblivion; or if you will live a truly wonderful life worth reading about.”

“Read with a vengeance, as if the author’s life is on trial, because nothing will have such an impact and be a better investment than owning, reading, and re-reading books that will change the way you think, write, and speak.”

“It had never occurred to me that real life might offer the smallest portion of the happiness I found in reading.”

“Books knew more than you did, as a rule.”

“I read not with any particular object in mind, nor really with the intention of retaining any information about the subjects that I chose, but rather because the act of reading was a habit, and because it was soothing and, perhaps, from a lifetime’s inculcated faith in the explanatory power of books, the half-held belief that somewhere in those hectares upon hectares of printed pages I might find that fact which would make sense of my growing unhappiness, allowing me to peel back the obscurant layers of myself and lay bare at last the solid structure underneath.”

“Once in a very long time you come across a book that is far, far more than the ink, the glue and the paper, a book that seeps into your blood. With such a book the impact isn’t necessarily obvious at first…but the more you read it and re-read it, and live with it, and travel with it, the more it speaks to you, and the more you realize that you cannot live without that book. It’s then that the wisdom hidden inside, the seed, is passed on.”

“In an established love of reading there is a policy of insurance guaranteeing certain happiness till death.”

“No two persons ever read the same book.”