124 result(s) for Big Book Quotes.
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
"A great book is a great friend."
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."
"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"One could not count the successful hairs on their head."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"Books are a refuge, a subtlety and a humor, a chance to escape and a mirror reflecting the world."
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go."
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
"Books are a kind of magic that gives life lessons, enlightens the mind, and stirs emotions."
"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."
"The books that help you the most are the ones that make you think the hardest."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
"The book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
"Books are a treasure to cherish."
"What books did for you, you should do it for others."
"There’s more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
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"Books are the gateways to knowledge and the keepers of wisdom."
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."
"In my opinion, there is no rock bottom to education."
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
"Each book is a journey waiting to be taken."
"A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance."
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
"What we think, we become."
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
"Dream big and dare to fail."
"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
"Get busy living, or get busy dying."
"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
"In order to write about life first you must live it."
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"Books are meant to be read and not to be locked in a safe."
"So many books, so little time."
"In my library, I have a book that has no title, no author, and no index. It is a welcome book."
"That’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'"
"I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
"The book is a fragile creature, a living thing, how much more fragile must be the reader."
"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
"Reading is a way to be whole. It helps us explore our identities."
"The only thing you need to change is the way you look at things."
"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end."
"There is no such thing as an ordinary person. Every person has a mysterious world inside of them, just waiting to be unlocked by a book."
"You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
"A great book is a friend that never lets you down."
"Reading can take you places you have never been before."
"To read is to voyage through time."
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand."
"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
"Reading is a way to take your mind off your own life."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
"I cannot live without books."
"Books are a refuge from the world."
"What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do."
"Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once."
"We read to know we are not alone."
"Books are the greatest gift of all."
"A good book is an event in my life."
"The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to be happy."
"Books are the training weights of the mind."
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are."
"In my beginning is my end."
"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."
"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own."
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
"A great book provides escapism for the mind and entertainment for the soul."
""Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path.""
""Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves.""
""We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition.""
""We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.""
""Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.""
""Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.""
""Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.""
""Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.""
""Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.""
""Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.""
""Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.""
""Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.""
""Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.""
""Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.""
""The feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear.""
""We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.""
""We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.""
""We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.""
""No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others.""
""Tolerance is our code.""
""We are people who normally would not mix. But there exists among us a fellowship, a friendliness, and an understanding which is indescribably wonderful.""
""Faith without works is dead.""
""Resentment is the number one offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else.""
""God could and would if He were sought.""
""And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation – some fact of my life – unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at the moment.""
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