“remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) things we ought to do (2) things we’ve got to do (3) things we like doing. i say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doing things for none of the three reasons, things like reading books they don’t like because other people read them.” - letters to children, cs lewis
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Richard Bach, Illusions
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“i’ve read a lot of books, so i know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.” - brian andreas
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Lemony Snicket - Horseradish: Bitter truths you can’t avoid
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“but in reading great literature i become a thousand men and yet remain myself. like the night sky in the greek poem, i see with a myriad eyes, but it is still i who see. here, as in worship, love, in moral action, and in knowing, i transcend myself; and am never more myself than when i do.” - an experiment in criticism, cs lewis
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Sterling Publishing is releasing some of our favorite classics with some seriously pretty new covers in March 2012. Click here for more information.
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“to make conversation, to share a joke, to perform mutual acts of kindness, to read together well-written books, to share in trifling and serious matters, to disagree though without animosity … and in the very rarity of disagreement to find the salt of normal harmony, to teach each other something or to learn from one another, to long with impatience for those absent, to welcome them with gladness on their arrival. these and other signs come from the heart of those who love and are loved and are expressed through the mouth, through the tongue, through the eyes, and a thousand gestures of delight, acting as fuel to set out minds on fire and out of many to forge unity.” - confessions, augustine
