2. People who promise things that they never give are like clouds and wind that bring no rain: do not be misled by promises. 3. Your vote is your power: use it to make a difference to your life and yo...
SThat’s enriched my life more than I can say. Of course you could do more—you can always do more, and you should do more—but still, the important thing is to do what you can, whenever you can.
Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.
Even the stay-at-home mothers subjected their kids to a kind of benign neglect back then.
Asked: And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you? Of course not—I’d read it first. I don’t think I could have stood the suspense if I hadn’t known what was going to happen. I’d have been way to...
A pamphlet that she’d been handed when she was visiting an African country where people were able to vote freely for the first time. The pamphlet was called The Ten Commandments for Voters,
We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person- it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instance-...
There's one question I think we should ask of one another a lot more often, and that's What are you reading?It's a simple question but a powerful one, and it can change lives, creating a shared univer...
The day’s passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall...
I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates new ones. Every book changes your life. So I like to ask; How is this book cha...
I can’t see giving up real books, she said. And I love that I can give away my books after I’ve read them. Think of the first edition of The Magic Mountain I’m giving Nico. It was printed along with t...
Halpern wants the reader to think about the difference between asking How are you feeling? and Do you want me to ask how you’re feeling?
Everyone doesn't have to do everything, she told me. People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging thin...
Even if the stars are obliterated by light there are beautiful things to see all around us, and we can't be bothered. But its not because we are ill, most of us. Or because it's too cold. Or because w...
Connelly writes, As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as people whisper the words they’re forbidden to speak aloud. In
But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks shows that every great religion shares a love of books, of reading, of knowledge. The indi...
Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I...
As we were talking, a social worker came in with a questionnaire. Did Mary (I thought it was odd that they always called her Mary even though her name was Mary Anne, and odder that Mom refused to corr...
3. You don’t have to talk all the time. Sometimes just being there is enough.
In the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the y...