The books you read are one of the  most important things you can do                    with your time.

You will never be lonely if you              enjoy reading

BOOKS/READING

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery  room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life." -- Norman  Cousins

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

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get  me a book I ain't read."      Abraham Lincoln

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."  -- Walt Disney

"It isn't what the book costs; it's what it will cost if you don't read it." -- Jim Rohn

"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are  ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." -- E. M. Forster

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be  librarians." -- Warren Buffett

"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the  shelves." -- Gilbert Highet

"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books." -- Bell Hooks

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in  Mississippi." -- Oprah Winfrey

"A room without a book is like a body without a soul." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read." -- G.K. Chesterton

"Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. And guess what? It's all available." -- Jim Rohn

Read All the Books by Jim Rohn

All of the books that we will ever need to make us as rich, as healthy, as happy, as powerful, as sophisticated and as successful as we want to be have  already been written.

People from all walks of life, people with some of the most incredible life  experiences, people that have gone from pennies to fortune and from failure to  success have taken the time to write down their experiences so that we might  share in their wealth of knowledge. They have offered their wisdom and  experience so that we can be inspired by it and instructed by it, and so that we can amend our philosophy by it. Their contributions enable us to reset our sail  based upon their experiences. They have handed us the gift of their insights so that we can change our plans, if need be, in order to avoid their errors. We can rearrange our lives based on their wise advice.

All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by  others in books. The important question is this:  In the last ninety days, with  this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our  relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many  books have we read?

Why do we neglect to read the books that can change our lives? Why do we complain but remain the same? Why do so many of us curse the effect but nourish  the cause? How do we explain the fact that only a small percent of our entire  national population uses the library card they possess - a card that would give us access to all of the answers to success and happiness we could ever want?  Those who wish for the better life cannot permit themselves to miss the books that could have a major impact on how their lives turn out. The book they miss will not help!

And the issue is not that books are too expensive! If a person concludes that  the price of buying the book is too great, wait until he must pay the price for  not buying it. Wait until he receives the bill for continued and prolonged  ignorance.

There is very little difference between someone who cannot read and someone  who will not read. The result of either is ignorance. Those who are serious  seekers of personal development must remove the self-imposed limitations they  have placed on their reading skills and their reading habits. There is a  multitude of classes being taught on how to be a good reader and there are thousands of books on the shelves of the public libraries just waiting to be  read. Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We  must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our  lives.

A little reading each day will result in a wealth of valuable information in a very short period of time. But if we fail to set aside the time, if we fail to  pick up the book, if we fail to exercise the discipline, then ignorance will  quickly move in to fill the void.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. They must  continually seek after self-mastery for the purpose of developing a balanced  philosophy of life, and then live in accordance with the dictates of that philosophy. The habit of reading is a major stepping-stone in the development of a sound philosophical foundation. And in my opinion it is one of the fundamentals required for the attainment of success and happiness.

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