personal development on Books

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

The bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues, and tinges, and every cover is a door that turns on magic hinges.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading. The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no b...

If you like quotes, might I suggest *entire books*.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.

A common question I’m hearing from folks these days is whether it is beneficial (or a moral imperative) to pay attention to the news. The Catholic nun and social activist Dorothy Day asked the same qu...

May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you, but only you can save yourself.

The exiled Niccolo Machiavelli actually changed into his best clothes to enter into his nightly reading conversation with the ancients.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are...

Have you ever noticed the severe discrepancy behind the very few verses in the Bible that discuss the “how-to” of parenting and the hundreds of Christian books that confidently proclaim “God’s plan fo...

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains o...

The Puritans in American Literature “Welcome to Honors American Literature!” You probably haven’t heard that line since high school, right? After his first couple of weeks of school, my boy came home...

It is estimated that over 80 percent of the books published in any given year are about the self.

When the movie The Da Vinci Code hit the theaters and the swirl of related controversy began to pick up speed, I decided finally to read the book so that I wouldn’t be found ignorant dinner parties. I...

”My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed...