Books Change Your Life Quotes

1. "When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun."
Author: Benjamin Hoff

2. "Would you leave your world for me?" he asks. "I might" she tells him. She wonders how the world ever fell appart with this much love in it."
Author: Carrie Ryan

3. "Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe."
Author: Charles F. Glassman MD

4. "Men of your age don't bounce. They splat."
Author: David Mitchell

5. "My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately."
Author: Dorothy Allison

6. "You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you."
Author: Dwight Gooden

7. "Science taps the power of human understanding to look at the world and figure out how it works. It can't fail without humanity itself failing. Your magic could turn off, and you would hate that, but you would still be you. You would still be alive to regret it. But because science rests upon my human intelligence, it is the power that cannot be removed from me without removing me. Even if the laws of the universe change on me, so that all my knowledge is void, I'll just figure out the new laws, as has been done before. It's not a Muggle thing, it's a human thing, it just refines and trains the power you use every time you look at something you don't understand and ask 'Why?"
Author: Eliezer Yudkowsky

8. "If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars."
Author: J. R. Moehringer

9. "They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
Author: Joseph Conrad

10. "It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy."
Author: Kate Atkinson

11. "One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ...The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand."
Author: L. Ron Hubbard

12. "The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes."
Author: Mark Helprin

13. "Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession."
Author: Mark Twain

14. "A true thing about seeds is that they don't always stay seeds. In addition, most seeds grow up to be something. Some become plants or trees that then go about producing more seeds. Some seeds get popped and eaten and...well, you probably have a pretty good idea of what happens to things after they get eaten.Some seeds are dried, some are pressed for oil, and some simply end up in bean bags or as the rattle in a baby's toy. It's probably fair to say that the life and times of a seed isn't necessarily the most exciting thing in the world, but what the seed lacks in excitement, it makes up for in miracles.It's a miracle that a tiny seed can change from a dot in your palm into a towering tree whose wood can be made into the home you live in or the paper books are printed on."
Author: Obert Skye

15. "You've got that motherly concern in your eyes, Jean. I must look like I'm hammered as shit," said Locke."Actually you look like you were executed last week."
Author: Scott Lynch

16. "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your ."
Author: Tom Lehrer

17. "Thinking was going on then as now; and thinking after all, is the flesh and blood of life; action seemed to her all out of proportion, as though people came and waved flags in your face."
Author: Virginia Woolf

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