Better world Quote by Kathleen Tessaro

“More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humiliations that attended contact with the world outside.”

— Lorna Sage

“We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we…

— T.E. Lawrence

“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A…

— Beth Pattillo

“They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what…

— Lian Hearn

“It is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose…

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“I tutored myself in the art of solemnity, kept my euphoria private, and adopted a serious demeanour in keeping with everyone else and the…

— Judith Kinghorn

“From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in…

— Patricia J. Williams

“they were, perhaps, so unwearyingly fond of good things not least because they could, when put to it, do without them, and could survive…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack…

— Mary Oliver

“Perhaps I had missed a great deal, reading so continually and seeing the world through the windowpanes of books. But then, maybe not. If…

— Fred Chappell

“...I became aware of the world's tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that surrounded me, the blissful bond between me and all of creation,…

— Vladimir Nabokov