Read and Learn

A blog devoted to quotes i find inspiring. Most coming from my favorite books.

[marquitaharris]

#books on the sidewalk near NY Public Library (Taken with instagram)

[talesoftruth-blog]

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

Emilie Buchwald

[quote-book]

You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.

Chuck Palahniuk, Rant (via imfantasyparade)

[talesoftruth-blog]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour on the stage, And then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

[palides-deactivated20130904]

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

[purpleheartz]

“You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong instead.”

Eay Pray Love (via purpleheartz)

[slekes]

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson (via slekes)

[talesoftruth-blog]

Without faith one cannot live...

Leo Tolstoy, My Confession

[dancetendance-blog]

Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you anywhere.

Albert Einstein (via dancetendance)

[talesoftruth-blog]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

[talesoftruth-blog]

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Albert Einstein

[talesoftruth-blog]

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

[talesoftruth-blog]

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

[talesoftruth-blog]

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars.

The Litte Prince

[talesoftruth-blog]

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

The Little Prince

[talesoftruth-blog]

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden