Thread by @AlexAndBooks_

22 Powerful quotes that will inspire you to read a book in 2022:

"Those who can read see twice as well."

-Menander

"The world belongs to those who read."

-Rick Holland

"An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise."

-Thomas Wharton

"Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of a man, has decided his way of life."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

-Jim Rohn

"People say they don't have time to read but it's just not true. The average person today reads more words per day than ever before. If you add up all the emails, Instagram comments, texts...you're actually reading the equivalent of a 200-page book each day."

-Neil Pasricha

"With reading, you have this opportunity to learn whatever you want from the greatest people who ever lived along that dimension."

-@jordanbpeterson

"The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading."

-@JamesClear

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world."

-Napoleon Bonaparte

"The right book at the right time may mean more in a person's life than anything else."

-Lee Shippey

"A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting."

-Walter Mosley

"The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower."

-@naval

"If you do something like read a lot of books and talk to a lot of people, you can learn almost anything."

-@elonmusk

"As long as I have a book in my hand, I don't feel like I'm wasting time."

-Charlie Munger

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."

-W. Somerset Maugham

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

-Oscar Wilde

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

-Frederick Douglass

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time–none, zero."

-Charlie Munger

"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't."

-Mark Twain

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."

-Rene Descartes

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

-Joseph Addison

"If you love to read, or learn to love reading, you will have an amazing life. Period."

-Anne Lamott

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