More quotes on reading

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. ~Abraham Lincoln

The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television. ~Andrew Ross

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. ~Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations — such is a pleasure beyond compare. ~Kenko Yoshida

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies... I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home." ~Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

Childfree and Loving It! by Nicki Defago
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

If the book chooses the person, then bless this book! I willfully don't have children because 1) I cannot afford them at this stage of my life and 2) I am working on school. I am an only child because my mother didn't want to endure the physical agony of childbirth again. Therefore, my only options were to complain about my status or enjoy it. I selected the latter. In my adulthood, many of my cousins have become mothers and I don't know how they can say they enjoy life with so many children. None of them have become wealthy. (I say this because if they had money, we would all know it. No humility.) Why struggle with growing children?

I am keeping this for my Sociology courses.


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