Bookseller Life Quotes

#1. He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

Ambrose

#2. I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

Tao Lin

#3. There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

Dorothy Day

#4. Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid.
Rabbi Nachman of Braslav

Nachman Cohen

#5. If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.

Will Tuttle

#7. A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Wendell Berry

#8. Old post cards, tin wind-up toys with rusted gears, buttons long out of fashion, ticket stubs found in a shoebox in the attic - these are the things Alice likes, not new stuff that comes sealed in plastic.

Jan Strnad

#9. The real reason why I should not like to be in the book trade for life is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller has to tell lies about books, and that gives him a distaste for them.

George Orwell

#10. Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

Mario Batali

#11. We each take up one virtual space per title ... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

J.A. Konrath

#12. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan W. Watts