Reading

"Life takes patience", I don't remember where I read this. I do know that I will remember this sentence forever. The following quotes on reading are adapted from Oprah's July issue; some I've seen before, some not. I cannot agree with them more on what reading means in people's life. Hope I can always have time to sit down and enjoy reading and have conversations with wise people. To listen, to laugh and cry, to learn, to feel, to see, and to enjoy the life God gives us.

Through the use of books, I had the whole world at my feet, could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.

In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something-a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things-which you had thought unique and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone who is even long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. My home is where my books are.

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps…save the world.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

A great book should leave you slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

Poetry can clear away the clutter, providing a tranquil space where thinking …is possible.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat, or fly into the future.

I would be most content if my children grow up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.