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10 Quotes Readers Fell in Love with This Year
An apple a day allegedly may keep the doctor away, but a quote a day can offer much-needed encouragement and inspiration. That's why we handpick a special quote for Goodreads members every day. (Not subscribed to our Quote of the Day email? Sign up here!) Check out which words of wit and wisdom were the most popular this year.
10. "Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." Barbara W. Tuchman (Quote of the Day for January 30)
9. "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore." William Faulkner (Quote of the Day for May 7)
8. "Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself." Sara Henderson (Quote of the Day for September 15)
7. "We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams." H.G. Wells (Quote of the Day for September 21)
6. "Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real." Nora Ephron (Quote of the Day for May 19)
5. "Sleep is good, he said, and books are better." George R.R. Martin (Quote of the Day for August 6)
4. "Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it." Jeanette Winterson (Quote of the Day for August 27)
3. "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss (Quote of the Day for March 2)
2. "Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read." Raymond Carver (Quote of the Day for May 25)
1. "One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." Stephen Hawking (Quote of the Day for January 8)
Do you have a favorite inspiring book quote? Share it with us in the comments!
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Dec 29, 2015 10:08PM
So true.
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This are all amazing, my faves are 4, 6, 7 and 10 tho
I cannot live without books...- Thomas Jefferson
Great man, great quote, and so fitting to me!
There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love...- Shmuley Boteach (Quote of the Day for November 19)
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer- Jean de La Fontaine
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge...- Tuli Kupferberg (Quote of the Day for September28)
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature...- P. G. Wodehouse (Quote of the Day for October 15)
'And how shall I think of you?'...He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!'...- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Quote of the Day for November 1)
Numbers 4 and 1. I love love love quotes. Now I have to go searching through my forever long lists to share here. Fun stuff :)
They all are amazingly true!!! 4-6-10 are my faves <3
Your Quote of Day has become part of my daily reading. :) I look forward to seeing them every night (that's when they arrive in my mailbox). This year my favorite is this one: "Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly."
My favorite is the 9th, it's how I'm feeling these days after xmas
I love the 7th one... makes total sense..
My favourite are the 3rd, the 4th and the 9th, particularly the last one.
"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams." H.G. Wells (Quote of the Day for September 21)
Wow, this so true. This remind me of a Walt Disney quoted " Keep Moving Foward "
Some good ones mixed with the melodramatic.
“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”― Walt Disney Company
I love all of the quotes. So true!
"My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
― Thomas Carlyle
I may be misquoting, but one of my favorite is also from George R. Martin via the character of Jojen...the man who reads lives a 1000 lives, the man who does not lives only one.
"Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness"-Anubhav Mishra
My favorite quote is from Shantaram by John Gregory David "The Truth is a bully that we all pretend to like."
“And Tiffany knew that if a witch started thinking of anyone as "just" anything, that would be the first step on a well-worn path that could lead to, oh, to poisoned apples, spinning wheels, and a too-small stove... and to pain, and terror, and horror and the darkness.” The Shepherd's Crown
"The solution to any problem - work, love, money, whatever - is to go fishing, and the bigger the problem, the longer the trip should be." Author: John Gierach "Standing in a River, waving a stick"
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is what you read when you don't have to, that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde "
2, 4 &5 are my biggest personal traits.
Anubhav wrote: ""Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness"-Anubhav Mishra"
That is great.
♥ Sandi wrote: ""It is what you read when you don't have to, that determines what you will be when you can't help it. ~Oscar Wilde ""That is really inspiring! And, a bit comforting, really. :)
As we move into 2016 I have reflected over 2015 and have decided that I am putting quote #9: You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore by William Faulkner as my new mantra!
Olivia wrote: "interesting quote for today."I agree.
"Your life. Love it. From the hurt to the wonder. From the bone to the flower. Love it. With everything you've got. It's yours" -Nayyirah Waheed I just love that one so much
"A writer is a world trapped in a person." - Victor Hugo
Loved these quotes!My favorite quote from a book I read this year is from Words of Radiance, which also happens to be the best book I've read in 2015.
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He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
I find myself in complete agreement with this statement by Sir Richard Francis Burton, "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
Shahid wrote: "When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge...- Tuli Kupferberg (Quote of the Day for September28)"
And he should know....
I will keep in mind no. 8 for the new coming year!!!!!!
