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Books are important for the mind, heart, and soul. But don’t take it from us: These quotes about reading speak for themselves. 书籍对人的思想、心灵和灵魂都至关重要。但这并非我们的一面之词：这些关于阅读的名言警句本身就足以说明一切。Les livres sont importants pour l'esprit, le cœur et l'âme. Mais ne nous croyez pas sur parole : ces citations sur la lecture parlent d'elles-mêmes.
The power to be found between the pages of a book is formidable, indeed. And these inspiring quotes about books and importance of reading are here to remind you of that. 书页间蕴藏的力量的确令人敬畏。这些关于书籍和阅读重要性的励志名言，正是为了提醒你这一点。Le pouvoir que recèlent les pages d'un livre est véritablement formidable. Et ces citations inspirantes sur les livres et l'importance de la lecture sont là pour vous le rappeler.
From these quotes exemplify the benefits of reading and of a good books to comfort, challenge, and inspire you. 这些引言体现了阅读的好处，以及一本好书如何安慰你、挑战你、激励你。Ces citations illustrent les bienfaits de la lecture et le pouvoir réconfortant, stimulant et inspirant des bons livres.
Cozy comfort: a person wrapped in a chunky knit blanket sips a warm drink while reading a book, embodying a peaceful and relaxed moment. 舒适惬意：一个人裹着厚厚的针织毯，一边啜饮着热饮，一边读书，体现了平静放松的时刻。Confort douillet : une personne enveloppée dans une couverture en grosse maille sirote une boisson chaude en lisant un livre, incarnant un moment de paix et de détente.
One. For,“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” 一、因为，“书籍就是飞机、火车和公路。它们既是目的地，也是旅程。它们就是家。” Un. Car « les livres sont l’avion, le train et la route. Ils sont la destination et le voyage. Ils sont le foyer. »
Two. ”Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 二、“今日读者，明日领袖。” Deux. « Aujourd’hui lecteur, demain leader. »
Three. ”A word after a word after a word is power.” 三、“一个字接着一个字，这就是力量。” Trois. « Un mot après l'autre, c'est du pouvoir. »
Four. ”One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” 四，《只需瞥一眼书，你就能听到另一个人的声音，也许是一个已经去世一千年的人。阅读就是穿越时空的旅行。》Quatre. « Un simple coup d’œil à un livre et vous entendez la voix d’une autre personne, peut-être quelqu’un mort depuis mille ans. Lire, c’est voyager dans le temps. »
Five. ”Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” 五、“给我一个爱读书的家庭，我就能给你展示那些改变世界的人。” Cinq. « Montrez-moi une famille de lecteurs, et je vous montrerai les personnes qui font bouger le monde. »
Six. ”A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” 六、“一本书就是一座花园，一个果园，一个仓库，一场聚会，顺便说一句，一个伙伴，一位顾问，众多顾问。” Six. « Un livre est un jardin, un verger, un entrepôt, une fête, une compagnie au passage, un conseiller, une multitude de conseillers. »
Seven. ”When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” 七、“回首往事，我再次被文学赋予生命的力量深深打动。如果我今天还是个年轻人，想要在世上找到自我认同，我依然会像年轻时那样，通过阅读来做到这一点。” Sept. « Quand je repense à tout cela, je suis à nouveau profondément impressionné par le pouvoir vivifiant de la littérature. Si j’étais un jeune aujourd’hui, cherchant ma place dans le monde, je le ferais à nouveau en lisant, comme je le faisais dans ma jeunesse. »
Eight. ”Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.” 八、“阅读不应该被视为孩子的苦差事或义务，而应该被视为一份礼物。” Huit. « La lecture ne doit pas être présentée aux enfants comme une corvée, un devoir. Elle doit leur être offerte comme un cadeau. »
Nine. ”I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” 九、“我认为书就像人一样，它们会在你最需要的时候出现在你的生活中。”
Neuf. « Je pense que les livres sont comme les gens, dans le sens où ils apparaissent dans votre vie au moment où vous en avez le plus besoin. »
Ten. ”It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.” 十.“直到我开始阅读，并发现了一些学校不让我们读的书，我才发现，即使你疯了，你也可以快乐地生活，而无需像其他人一样。” Dix. « Ce n’est que lorsque j’ai commencé à lire et que j’ai découvert des livres qu’on ne nous laissait pas lire à l’école que j’ai compris qu’on pouvait être fou et heureux, et avoir une belle vie sans être comme tout le monde. »
Eleven. ”Books are a uniquely portable magic.” 十一。“书籍是一种独一无二、便于携带的魔法。” Onze. « Les livres sont une magie unique et portable. »
A cozy reading nook with an open book resting on a soft blanket, accompanied by a cup of hot beverage on a bedside table, inviting relaxation and leisure. 舒适的阅读角落，一本打开的书放在柔软的毯子上，床头柜上放着一杯热饮，让人感到放松和休闲。 Un coin lecture douillet avec un livre ouvert posé sur une couverture moelleuse, accompagné d'une tasse de boisson chaude sur une table de chevet, invitant à la détente et aux loisirs.
Twelve. ”Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.” 十二、“书就像镜子：你只能从中看到你内心已有的东西。” Douze. « Les livres sont des miroirs : on n’y voit que ce que l’on a déjà en soi. »
Thirteen. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” 十三、“说话前先思考。阅读后再思考。” Treize. « Réfléchissez avant de parler. Lisez avant de réfléchir. »
Fourteen. ”Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” 十四、“让我们合理一点，每周增加一天，专门用于阅读。” Quatorze. « Soyons raisonnables et ajoutons un huitième jour à la semaine, consacré exclusivement à la lecture. »
Fifteen. ”If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” 十五。“如果你不喜欢读书，说明你还没找到合适的书。” Quinze. « Si vous n’aimez pas lire, c’est que vous n’avez pas encore trouvé le bon livre. »
Sixteen. ”I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.” 十六。“蜷缩在沙发上看书，我感觉自己无比鲜活。” Seize . « Je me sens infiniment vivante, blottie sur le canapé en train de lire un livre. »
Seventeen. ”Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” 十七。“有些书让我们自由，有些书使我们自由。” Dix-sept. « Certains livres nous laissent libres, d'autres nous rendent libres. »
Eighteen. ”Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: They feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.” 十八。“写作和阅读能减少我们的孤独感。它们加深、拓宽、扩展我们对生活的理解：它们滋养灵魂。当作家们用他们精准的文字和真知灼见让我们摇头叹息，甚至让我们开怀大笑，反思自身或生活时，我们便重获活力。我们有机会与生活的荒诞共舞，或者至少为之鼓掌，而不是一次又一次地被它压垮。这就像在海上遭遇暴风雨时，在船上歌唱。你无法阻止狂风暴雨，但歌声却能改变船上所有人的心灵和精神。” Dix-huit. « Écrire et lire diminuent notre sentiment d’isolement. Ces activités approfondissent, élargissent et enrichissent notre perception de la vie : elles nourrissent l’âme. Lorsque les écrivains nous interpellent par la justesse de leur prose et la vérité de leurs propos, et même nous font rire de nous-mêmes ou de la vie, nous retrouvons notre optimisme. On nous offre la possibilité de danser avec l’absurdité de la vie, ou du moins d’applaudir avec elle, au lieu de la subir sans cesse. C’est comme chanter sur un bateau en pleine tempête. On ne peut pas arrêter la tempête, mais chanter peut transformer le cœur et l’esprit des personnes qui se trouvent à bord. »
Nineteen. ”We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” 十九。“我们讲述故事是为了生存。” Dix-neuf. « Nous nous racontons des histoires pour vivre. »
Twenty. ”Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” 二十。“书和门是一样的。你打开它们，就进入了另一个世界。” Vingt. « Les livres et les portes, c’est la même chose. On les ouvre et on entre dans un autre monde. »
Twenty-one. ”A good book would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” 二十一。“一本好书会让我暂时忘却自我，然后再把我塞回现实，让我感觉格格不入，很不自在。” Vingt-et-un. « Un bon livre me sortirait de moi-même, puis me remettrait dedans, désormais surdimensionné et mal à l'aise dans cette nouvelle position. »
”Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
“We read to know we are not alone.”
”As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”
”It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don’t have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.”
A person's hand reaching for sheets of paper on a wooden shelf.
”Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading.”
”Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.”
”A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.”
”Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
”Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives.”
”Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
”Both reading and writing are experiences – lifelong – in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
”The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
”That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
”I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go…”
”Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”
”Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.”
A woman reads a book on a grassy hill at sunset, overlooking a river and distant landscape, lost in inspiring quotes about books.
”A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
”I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.”
Black and white drawing of five books standing upright and stacked together in a row.
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”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.”
”Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
”Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds.”
”You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
”Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.”
”That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
”We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: We need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.” – Philip Pullman
”Books may well be the only true magic.” – Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons
”Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” – Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader’s Reflections on a Year of Books
”A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on, you are enriched threefold.” – Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
”Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” – Khaled Hosseini
”It is known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.” – Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
”If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.” – François Mauriac
A steaming mug, open book, and plaid scarf on a windowsill overlooking a snowy winter landscape invite you to enjoy inspiring quotes about reading.
”To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham, Books And You
”I don’t read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” – Elbert Hubbard
”Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.” – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
”A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
”Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” – Sir Francis Bacon
”Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” – Joyce Carol Oates
”A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” – Madeleine L’Engle
”Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” – Dave Eggers
”Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells… and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like pressed flower… both strange and familiar.” – Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
”The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell, 1984
”Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” – Franz Kafka
”Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.” – Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
”Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled ‘This could change your life.’” – Helen Exley
”There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.” – Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
”Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
”The best moments in reading are when you come across something–a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things–which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” – Alan Bennett, The History Boys
”Reading is essential for those who seek to rise about the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
”The story is truly finished–and meaning is made–not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.” – Celeste Ng
”One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” – Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
”A book is a gift you can open again and again.” – Garrison Kellor
”Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot
”Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?” – Christopher Paolini
”Once you’ve read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
”The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
”That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive–all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.” – Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
That's what I would say.
The Bible is God's love letter to us. I always when I teach children, I will hold it up and I go, "This is a GPS, global positioning system. This book will show you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going. Give it a chance. Just open the Bible. Read it, and ask God any question you have in your heart. You know, we're all told this lie that we can't understand it, but God wrote it as a love letter to humanity. You can understand it. You can get it free on your phone. You can get it from Amazon. Go to a library. Just open the scripture and let it speak to your heart. That's what I would say. It's bread for life.
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