"Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything."

-- Tomie dePaola

#Reading Quotes #Important Quotes

“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.12, Spectra
“All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.”
“The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance. Regardless of what happens to you you can always choose to be grateful by imagining how it could have been worse!”
“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
“Cats learned how to fly that evening,...”
“I'll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself...I'll run to be emancipated.”
“I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.”
“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled and comforted. A tremendous love and compassion exuded by every family member. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”

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