Geraldine Brooks Quotes

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back at home, I just put up a massive bookcase and asked everyone I know and love to help me fill it with their favorite books. It’s been quite nice because I’ve learned a lot about my friends and family from what they’ve been giving me. A book says a lot about a person.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

I read world literature and I read French romances in the originals. I had quite a profound knowledge - no, that sounds conceited, but I did have a profound interest in everything spiritual.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

Wellness that is being allowed - or the wellness that is being denied - is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind. It is all psychosomatic. Every bit of it, no exceptions.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.