Quotes About Inspiring Reading

#1. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#2. Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

Ray Bradbury

#3. All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

Rudy Giuliani

#4. Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Karen Salmansohn

#5. Nothing can quite take the place of reading a good book out loud together. It can be calming, comforting, and inspiring. It is a powerful opportunity to bond and share in the delight of a good story.

Linda Lantieri

#6. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

Linda Dillow

#7. She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.

Stephanie Kuehn

#8. Our confidence ... is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

Lesslie Newbigin

#9. It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

Colm Toibin

#10. What about my parents?" "What about your parents?" "I can't let them down." "Even if it means letting yourself down? Which I doubt they'd want for you.

Gayle Forman

#11. I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

Molly Antopol

#12. I will keep reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Education stimulates self-study.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

Alejandro Zambra

#15. Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book ...

Thomas S. Monson

#16. Books are the most important of all my possessions. They capture the thoughts, feelings, dreams and lives of their authors, welcoming us into their worlds and inspiring us to emulate their adventures.

Fennel Hudson

#17. what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#18. Make time to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. His green eyes blazed with desire; such a different look than I'd known before. Chase had studied me, reading my feelings. Tucker was only trying to see his own reflection. Disturbing on several levels.

Kristen Simmons

#20. [When asked about Writing Conferences]
You meet people that will change your life.

Susan Wingate

#21. Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.

Jessica Zafra

#22. The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Harold E. Varmus

#23. I agree with you. Everyone gets lonely sometimes.

Alice Clayton

#24. People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.

Lois Lowry

#25. We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both.
The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Richard Paul Evans

#26. We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity
governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.

Miguel Syjuco

#27. It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of a book. You explore new lands, meet new people, feel new emotions, and are no longer the same person you were one word prior to reading it.

Martha Sweeney

#29. A corpuscule's like an empty body with an angry-ass spirit shoved in it. Rude as fuck thing to do to someone if you ask me.

Daniel Jose Older

#30. You can make time to read for 10-20 minutes daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita