Worth Reading Quotes

• Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Faces, Looks

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

  James Bryce

  Life Lesson, Book, Reading

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Education, Reading, Teaching

  English Social History ch. 18 (1942)

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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  Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

  Charles William Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Teacher

  "The Durable Satisfactions of Life (The Happy Life)". Book by Charles William Eliot (p. 37), 1910.

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

  Katherine Paterson

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

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• No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Reading, Age

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• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Reading, Buying

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• Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

  Charles William Eliot

  Book, Reading, Library

  Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

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• As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

  Rumi

  Law Of Attraction, Way, Walks

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Soul, Acting

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• Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

  John Ruskin

  Reading, Book, Buying

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

  Ajahn Chah

  Book, Reading, Heart

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• When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Bears, Minutes

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• Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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