Action Quote by Sijie Dai

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

— Lin Yutang

“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the historical ends…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these…

— Robert A. Nisbet

Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and…

— Horace

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

“A human being, appearances to the contrary, doesn’t create his own purposes. These are imposed by the time he’s born into; he may serve…

— Stanisław Lem

“The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do –…

— Barbara Savage

“All the while that Jean was listening to him, he was vaguely conscious that what gives literature its reality is the result of work…

— Marcel Proust

“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls…

— Lin Yutang

“His need was to exist, and to move onwards at the greatest possible risk, and with maximum of privation. If the absolutely pure, uncalculating,…

— Joseph Conrad