Monday, March 1, 2021

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz


“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin


“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” – Lemony Snicket


“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn


“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx


“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.” – Mark Twain


“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes


“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” – Mortimer J. Adler


“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss


“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller


“Reading brings us unknown friends” – Honoré de Balzac

Costumes worn in the movie Titanic on display

















THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR