Will Schwalbe Quotes

I flipped open to read the marked passage in Daily Strength: It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining t...

Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how I escape, but it's also how I engage. And reading should spur further engageme...

She never wavered in her conviction that books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn’t for h...

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern,

The Uncommon Reader,

The latter therapy has its roots in a philosophy called Naikan, developed by Ishin Yoshimoto. Naikan reminds people to be grateful for everything. If you are sitting in a chair, you need to realize th...

The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother’s side, who believed that when they dropped a present in the mail, your thank-you...

There was one sure way to avoid being assigned an impromptu chore in our house—be it taking out the trash or cleaning your room—and that was to have your face buried in a book.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. Still, one of the things I learned from Mom is this: Reading isn’t the opposite of doing; it’s the opposite of dyin...

We can't do much for the people we've lost, but we can remember them and we can read for them: the books they loved, and books we think they might have chosen. Maybe the reading can help us answer the...

What's odd about commencement is that so many people think of it as the end of something, the end of high school or college--but that's not what the word means at all. It means the beginning, the star...

Why did I always need to do something, like referring one person to another, just for the sake of doing something, when sometimes, perhaps, it was better to do nothing?

You can die now, with three healthy children, your husband of almost fifty years alive and well, and five grandchildren whom you love and who love you, all well, all happy’—well, I think Mom would hav...

You can leave the books that you don't like alone, and let other people read them- ancient scholar Yuan Chunglang

All over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for their children.

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death. I

A 'C' means you've done average work. There's nothing shameful about being average. You didn't fail. You didn't even come close. You did what you were supposed to do. Cheerfully accepting the C means...

Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts, from Collected Poems Jane Austen Russell Banks, Continental Drift Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, translated by Alison Ande...

I believe that everything you need to know you can find in a book. People have always received life-guiding wisdom from certain types of nonfiction, often from self-help books . . . . But I have found...

Pass the time? said the Queen. Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wante...