"Take a book, the poorest one written,..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read. Ultimately, you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.
More by Soren Kierkegaard
“...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.”
“It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.”
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
More on Reading
“To read too many books is harmful.”
“Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.”
“I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.”
More on Self Discovery
“You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.”
“When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”