R Quotes
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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.”
“Reading well, which means reading actively, is thus not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing. (P. 336)”
“Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.”
“Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.”
Source: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work
“Reading will expand mind.”
“Reading will give you happiness, happiness will lighten up your face, and lightened face will attract favor.”
“Reading will give you lasting pleasure.”
“Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.”
“Reading with a child not only opens their mind to the world- it reopens your mind to theirs.”
“Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.”
“Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.”
“Reading with your child is not about teaching them words; it’s about teaching them worlds”
Source: Learning to Be Happy: An Emotions & Feelings Book for Toddlers and Preschoolers Ages 3-6 About Joy and Everyday Happiness
“Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.”
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.”
“Reading won't have the confidence to be confident”
“Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.”
Source: Maggie's Beau
“Reading would have been a victory, there, something she had committed to despite the obstacles. Something she felt proud of accomplishing. Now, with nothing but time, reading just felt like a way of distracting herself from reality.”
Source: Mother Land
“Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Reading, writing, listening to music, skipping rope, flying kites, taking long walks along the sea, hiking in the crisp mountain air, all serve a joint purpose: these self-initiated acts free us from the drudgery of life. These forms of physical and mental exercises release the mind to roam uninhibited, such collaborative types of mind and body actions take people away from their physical pains and emotional grievances. A reprieve from the crippling grind of sameness allows personal imagination to soar. Imagination, a form of dreaming, is inherently pleasant and restorative. It is within these moments of personal introspection stolen from the industry of surviving that humankind touches upon the absolute truth of life: that there must be something more to living then merely getting by; the fundamental human condition thirsts for a way to improve upon the vestment that shelters our self-absorbed lives.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.”
“Reading your note, at our table, in my voice,
I heard you were ready to accept my love,
Which, of course, changes everything.”
Source: Some Things I Still Can't Tell You: Poems
“Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.”
“Reading your sonnets?” asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. “How’d you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you’ve lost your eyes?” “Not yet,” rumbled the Ionian. Orphu’s great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. “Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.”
Source: Ilium
“Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.”
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to read - poetry for example, or high-quality prose. They're used to reading magazines and newspapers, which are only of the mind, but not of the body.”
“Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin for this is deep reading: the slow and meditative possession of a book. We don't just read the words, we dream our lives in their vicinity. The printed page becomes a kind of wrought-iron fence we crawl through, returning, once we have wandered, to the very place we started.”
Source: The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
“Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.”
“Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.”
Source: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel
“Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.”
“READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.”
Source: Bright Flows the River: A Novel
“Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.”
“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
Source: Emile
“Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.”
Source: A Way of Being Free
“Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name”
“Reading, writing, mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, medicine, physics, and more were all at one time deep occult secrets. Today, many of these things are taught to children before they begin school. THE OCCULTISM OF THE PAST BECOMES THE SCIENCE OF THE FUTURE.”
Source: Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts
“Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.”
“Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.”
“Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.”
“Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.”
Source: Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books
“Reading. That was the sport I was good at.”
“Reading... a vacation for the mind.”
“Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book.”