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~ Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. ~

Lionel Trilling

~ Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed. ~

Dyan Machan

~ We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. ~

Peter F. Drucker

~ What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures ~

Samuel Gompers

~ The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-- the belief that the here and now is all there is. ~

Allan Bloom

~ You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~

Ray Bradbury

~ There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Real poverty is lack of books ~

Sidonie Gabrielle

~ The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books ~

Robertson Davies

~ Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Abundance ~ An endless supply of water, trees heavily laden with fruit, a sun that shines every day, seasons in their never-ending cycle, a constant supply of air, an infinite wellspring of love, so many people to share with, an eternal cascade of imagination and creativity, unlimited lessons and growth, much valuable work to do, limitless potential for expanding and opening our hearts, unending forests to wander, evermore books to read and write, a vast mind of thoughts to explore, overflowing goodness, exponential wonder, overwhelming mercy, ~ a copious abundance of abundance to ponder. ~

Jinjee and Storm Talifero

~ What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. ~

Elizabeth von Arnim

~ Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look at the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on Earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education. ~

David Polis

~ With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ~

Lope de Vega

~ Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. ~

A Whitney Brown

~ You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach that which you can never learn from masters. ~

Saint Bernard

~ In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names ~

Marcus Tullius Cicero

~ Anyone who eats thee meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one. ~

L. M. Boyd

~ Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master ~

Sri Chinmoy

~ Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond ~

Persian proverb

~ Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. ~

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

~ Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. ~

Barbara Taylor Bradford

~ Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~

Mark Twain

~ Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. ~

Martin Luther

~ I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ~

Robert Frost

~ He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. ~

William Osler

~ The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Believe one who knows; you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~

St. Bernard de Clairvaux†

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