Wayne Dyer Quotes

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be a healthy person mentally without reading substantial books than you can be a vigorous person physically without eating solid food. Books should be chosen, not for their freedom from evil, but for their possession of good. Dr. Johnson said: "Whilst you stand deliberating which book your son shall read first, another boy has read both."

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Read in order to live.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

Drink deeply from good books.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

You can't write if you don't read.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

I have a huge passion for literature.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.