book quotes

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. ~Author Unknown

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan

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

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.  ~William Hazlitt

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.  ~Thomas Helm

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.  ~Abraham Lincoln

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.  ~Andrew Ross

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958


There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. ~G.K. Chesterton

Simply Sunday

I'm joining a new Sunday meme this September. Got it from Chiara's Blog - Books for a Delicate Eternity via
http://delicateeternity.wordpress.com

Simply Sunday is a reading meme hosted by Books For A Delicate Eternity. It’s where you can share your favourite quote of the week; be it from a book, a novella, a short story, a poem, a song – whatever you like!

Here's my new favorite quote this first day of September:

"Love has to be reciprocated for it to be real.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Hades

It's true.. For love to work and be splendid, both parties should share the same feelings, passion, emotions. Love is a two-way street, love is like a dance - it takes two to tango, that's what most people say. So if you want to have a lasting relationship, you need to love and be loved.

Happy Sunday!

my fave lines...

And Nicola, who'd been kissed before only by a god, realized that being kissed by a mortal was a great deal more satisfying, because he seemed really to mean it. 

Or maybe it was only because this time she was being kissed by a man she truly loved, and whose friendship she valued above all others. . . . 

In any case, being kissed by Nathaniel Sheridan, even on the back of a horse in the middle of a public street, was quite the most exciting thing that had ever happened to Nicola.  

At least until Nathaniel lifted his head to say, in a raw voice, "Nicky, I love you so," and then proceeded to kiss her even more deeply.

from Nicola and the Viscount

dear john...

Just sharing some thoughts and lessons I learned from Nicholas Sparks' heart-warming novel...

Dear John:

What does true love mean?

Such a simple question, yet, I myself, am finding a hard time defining it. If this question was asked a decade ago, I might have answered the way I would have replied on a “slum book” – the kind of stuff that teenagers pass around and keep, to be able to know who might have a crush on them.

For me, true love means, having to love the other person with the best that you could give and not asking for something in return. True love means exhausting all your efforts to show how much you love the other person, thinking first of making that other person happy even if you are hurting and enduring the moments that you are not around him. And at the end of the day, you still find yourself content with the word knowing that you have helped put a smile on someone else’s face.

They say there is one true love that is meant for you. You do not need to look for it, because it will come your way. In your lifetime, there is that one person that you are entitled to love and cherish; however, it doesn’t always mean that you can spend your forever with him. True love is the sister of “sacrifice”, because when you love, you do not only embrace happiness, but you also feel pain, you understand sadness, you anticipate hardship, you learn from your mistakes. And from those mistakes, you grow stronger and you sacrifice for the good of the other because you do not only think about yourself, as long as you would willingly give what’s remained in your heart.

quotables

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life
in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it starts to work.

You will never make a more important decision than the person you marry.

The Bible has a word to describe "safe" sex: its called marriage.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great
until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.

We too often love things and use people, when we should be using
things and loving people.

One hundred years from now it won't matter ifr you got that big break,
or finally traded up to a Mercedes.... It will greatly matter, one
hundred years from now, that you made a

commitment to Jesus Christ.

Success is knowing the difference between cornering people and getting them in
your corner.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

The way to get to the top is to get off your bottom.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just plain yellow.

Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
work with excellence.

The best things in life are not free.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.