Read Quotes

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

~ Debasish Mridha

There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.

~ Carew Papritz

A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.

~ Deanna Vasquez

Read enough books to build your sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The first story to read is the Biblical stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You will create yourself with continuous self-education.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are so many books to read. What a paradise!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are many things to learn, when will I finish?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to read daily.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self education is holy mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story.Let your very identity be your book.Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I am what I have ever read

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Great souls, Great stories.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self learner, reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

~ Emil M. Cioran

I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is more to hear in what is not said.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, It is the trade entering his body. The art must enter the body, too.

~ Annie Dillard

Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than I knew them; they knew my fears, my doubts, my dreams. They gave words to feelings I did not even realize I experienced. They listened. They consoled. They kept me company. The books gave me a life outside of my own.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book.

~ K. Lamb

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

~ K. Lamb

I’m addicted to words. The only way to get my fix is to write and read.

~ K.d. Green

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

~ Madeleine L'engle

I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them. I write because I could not tell her that my life has fallen into categories. I write because I am no longer able to see the spark in her eyes! I write because she used to read my words but she is no longer by me to read! I admit, sometimes, I wish if I can sleep for the rest of the life! Does this really makes sense?

~ Khaled Al-Ostath

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

~ Maria V. Snyder

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself, you just have to let yourself in.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Don’t feed your body and keep your spirit starving. Butter bread for your body and living bread for your spirit. Read the Bible every day and keep your spirit away from hunger.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is one thing to be free, to be ignorant and free is to be imprisoned.

~ M.j. Croan

It is better to be a reader than richer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita