Best Reading Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.”

“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.”

“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.”

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“When you tap into your ability to dream and use your imagination it's the highest high you will ever achieve. The experience is euphoric, out of this world... butterflies..”

“<..> Reading makes you see with clearer eyes and understand the world better. When you do that , you become stronger - the feeling you associate with success. But at the same time with pain. Within the pages, there's much suffering, beyond that we've gone through in our finite experience of life. You'll read about suffering you didn't know existed. Having experienced their pain through words, it becomes a lot harder to focus on pursuing individual happiness and success. Reading makes you deviate further from the textbook definition of success because books don't make us go ahead of or above anyone else; they guide us to stand alongside others. <...>”

“Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!”

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”

“Weigh whatever you are about to say; what will it do to your hearer - encouragement, edification, disappointment or fear? What will it do to your life - glorify, edify, beautify or weigh you down? Speak well and things will go well.”

“Don't say negative things about your spouse and children.”

“Dominate in your domain; You can do it.”

“You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.”

“You recreate your world to your taste with God's Word in your mouth.”

“God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.”

“Your mouth is not given to you for feeding alone; it is given to you to programme events and circumstance around you.”

“Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!”

“Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.”

“Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.”

“The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.”

“Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!”

“He is the only option for better living.”

“Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.”

“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.”

“The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.”

“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.”

“The choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!”

“God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.”

“Let your words glorify God and edify your hearers and then beautify your life.”

“God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!”

“God comes down in the evenings to chat with man, enjoy man's company and find out how man faired in the course of the day.”

“Words are directed to your personalities namely; - God, your hearers, devil and yourself.”

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

“You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.”

“So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.”

“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will remain resourceful always.”

“The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.”

“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.”

“You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.”

“Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!”

“Be a King. Dare to be Different, dare to manifest your greatness.”

“Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.”

“Dare to be different. Represent your maker well and you will forever abide in the beautiful embrace of his loving arms.”

“God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.”

“Your words are powerful so what you say goes a long way to either establish or destroy you; this is why you should say things that God has said concerning you, not things that situations or circumstances say.”

“No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought that counts." -Bob Proctor”

“When a man finds this kind of woman, he will go all out for her knowing that she will not be a letdown.”

“A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.”

“Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.”

“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”

“An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.”

“Patience is a virtue not a vice.”

“An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.”

“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.”

“We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.”

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.”

“If this book ends up in your hands, it means all the forces of the Universe have conspired for the crossing of our paths—the meeting of our consciousness.”

“I am going to provide everything for my humans! Water. Food. Relationships. They can call on me whenever they want! I will be their healer, their provider, their friend”

“I am going to provide everything for my humans! Water. Food. Relationships. They can call on me whenever they want! I will be their healer, their provider, their friend and their God. I will be available to them for whatever they want and need! This is literally all for them!”

“I get up, my legs weak and my body still shaking.”

“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison, that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I certainly wasn’t seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My home made education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London asking questions. One was, “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.”

“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”

“Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.”

“There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.”

“I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of 'obligatory pleasure'? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. 'Obligatory happiness'! [...] If a book bores you, leave it; don’t read it because it is famous, don’t read it because it is modern, don’t read a book because it is old. If a book is tedious to you, leave it, even if that book is 'Paradise Lost' — which is not tedious to me — or 'Don Quixote' — which also is not tedious to me. But if a book is tedious to you, don't read it; that book was not written for you. Reading should be a form of happiness, so I would advise all possible readers of my last will and testament—which I do not plan to write— I would advise them to read a lot, and not to get intimidated by writers' reputations, to continue to look for personal happiness, personal enjoyment. It is the only way to read.”

“At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.”

“October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or shutting a book, did not end the tale.”

“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.”

“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me...”

“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.”

“I won't be sad too often,”

“That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.”

“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”

“I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...”

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

“Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like”

“It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.”

“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s not really true. There’s really only death, you know. Death is the biggie. Two hundred years from now, none of us are going to be here. We’re all going to be someplace else. Maybe a better place, maybe a worse place; it may be sort of like New Jersey, but someplace else. The same thing can be said of rabbits and mice and dogs, but we’re in a very uncomfortable position: we’re the only creatures—at least as far as we know, though it may be true of dolphins and whales and a few other mammals that have very big brains—who are able to contemplate our own end. We know it’s going to happen. The electric train goes around and around and it goes under and around the tunnels and over the scenic mountains, but in the end it always goes off the end of the table. Crash.”

“Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.”

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.”

“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.”

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”

“A quote is just ink until the moment makes it matter. It’s not the words that change—it’s where you are when they find you.”

“Porque hay trenes que solo pasan una vez.”

“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.”

“Read. You can always talk with another reader.”

“An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.”

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“Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosophers like Cioran or even Carl Schmitt, read newspapers, read those who despise, dismiss or simply ignore poetry and try to understand why they do it. Read your enemies, read those who reinforce your sense of what's evolving in poetry, and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are.”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,”

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility.”

“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”