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
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading
Jonathan Swift
[A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
Thomas Jefferson
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
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou
O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare
If we encounter a man of rare intellect,we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn
Joseph Addison
We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
Peter F. Drucker
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Martin Luther King Jr
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
H. L. Mencken