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“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects”.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

 

I sometimes wake up in the morning with the distinctive feeling that the day ahead is just made for sitting out in the shade of a tree with an inspirational book.  Maybe today will be such a day for you.

This month I have gathered a few quotes to share about books and reading which I feel offer wisdom, insight and comfort.

Thank you
Sabine

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“A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky.”
- The Koran

 

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
- Charles W. Eliot

 

“Words are the voice of the heart.”
- Confucius

 

“We read to know we are not alone.” 
- C.S. Lewis

 

“I've traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.”
-Unknown

 

 “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
- Confucius

 

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” 
- Hazel Rochman

 

“A book is a garden carried in the pocket.” 
- Chinese proverb

 

"To read is to empower 
To empower is to write 
To write is to influence 
To Influence is to change 
To change is to live." 
- Jane Evershed

 

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before;  you see more in you than there was before”
- Cliff Fadiman

 

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
- Emily Dickinson

 

“Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
- Charles Scribner, Jr

 

“No two persons ever read the same book:.
- Edmund Wilson

 

“There is creative reading as well as creative writing”
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson