Weekly Quotation: Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

― Mark Twain

Weekly Quotation: B.F. Skinner

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

― B.F. Skinner

Weekly Quotation: Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

― Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

 

 

Weekly Quotation: Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

― Pablo Picasso

Weekly Quotation: Mother Teresa

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

― Mother Teresa

Weekly Quotation: Garrison Keillor

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

—Garrison Keillor

Weekly Quotation: Dr. Seuss

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.

- Dr. Seuss

I know I’ve shared this photo, but it fits the quotation perfectly.

Weekly Quotation: Alice Hoffman

Books may well be the only true magic.

—Alice Hoffman

Weekly Quotation: Haruki Murakami

Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I’d keep the book hidden so I could read during class. But I had almost no desire to talk with anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else.

— Haruki Murakami

I took this photo at a Buddha garden. I like how the tree shadows, water ripples, and fish colors blend together.

Weekly Quotation: Charles Dickens

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

— Charles Dickens

Weekly Quotation: Saul Bellow

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

― Saul Bellow

Weekly Quotation: Abraham Lincoln

Get books, sit yourself down, and go to reading them yourself.

- Abraham Lincoln

Weekly Quotation: Michael Upchurch

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

― Michael Upchurch

Weekly Quotation: Edith Lovejoy Pierce

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

May your ‘book’ for 2013 be filled with pages of happiness!