The first time you read a book, you read it for the story.
The second time, you read it for the nuances.
The third time, you read it because you love it.
Every time after that, you read it because you’d be lost without it.
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Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.
Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch (via wordpainting)
2015;
1. Sleep earlier, rise earlier - get off your phone, set a time, create a habit.
2. Read more - and not just shitty fanfics. Read them too. But read. Read classics, read newspapers, read magazines, read fictional books, read joke books. Just read.
3. Stay away from people who do not deserve you - you are worth a lot more. Fuck their shitty opinions.
4. Eat well - and I don’t mean diet. I mean, eat well. Eat healthy, indulge every once in a while, but don’t go overboard. Eat for your health and not for society.
5. Create a plan that will be enjoyable for exercise and just do it - no fucking around this year
6. Study well - an hour every single day. Just one hour of uninterrupted, that’s all it will take. Apprendre et travail dans Francais - Je ne sais pas si ce est juste, pardon a mon francais suiveurs
7. Pamper yourself- give yourself one hour. One hour a week to unwind. To week to wash your hair, leave in your conditioner, soak your skin, have a face mask, shave your legs, light some candles, drink some tea, put on nice smelling lotion and comfy pajamas, put on some nice music and sleep well.
8. Put in an effort - doing your hair nicely, putting on that clean change of clothes and a simple coat of mascara has a lot of power to make you feel a hell of a lot better
9. Learn new VOCAB - because why the fuck not? Write down your new words that you learn while reading, use them in conversations; expand your vocab, because when you are sitting in the exam room, you’ll be glad you have.
10. Plan an outing once a week - have something to look forward to, to be excited for. Experience new things.
11. Set small goals - 3 small things to do every day, and don’t sleep till you have them done. 3x365 knowledgeable achievements will be worth it - trust me
12. Meet new people - don’t be so quick to judge.
13. Love yourself - I’m still trying to figure this one out, but I’m beginning to feel like I am worth it.
14. Art - practice makes perfect. Work, and when you can’t work, learn. Discover artists and their pieces, their inspirations, their style. Document it. There is always something to do to improve, whether it be through practice or research.
15. Stick to these goddamn goals. 2015 will be the shit if I make it.
me to myself (via onehundredacrewood)
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot (b. 22 November 1819)
But this is one of the vain thoughts with which we men flatter ourselves. We try to believe that the egoism within us would have easily been melted, and that it was only the narrowness of our knowledge which hemmed in our generosity, our awe, our human piety.
George Eliot, The Lifted Veil
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Buy a book, a book that I’ve never heard of, never read. Look at the cover, read the back, flip through the pages. Bring it home. Grab a highlighter, and begin to read the book. Every time there is a sentence, a word, a phrase that I can relate to, I will highlight it. Then, once I am done the book, I will be able to flip through it and see exactly how I was feeling each day that I was reading. It would be like a diary, but written in someone else’s words.
Having bad memory as a reader
- Person: Have you read *insert book title*?
- Me: Oh, yeah! I loved that book!
- Person: Great! Do you remember *insert book scene*? That was epic.
- Me: Whoa. Hold on. I said I loved the book, but I honestly don't remember a thing that happened in it.
Having bad memory as a reader
- Person: Have you read *insert book title*?
- Me: Oh, yeah! I loved that book!
- Person: Great! Do you remember *insert book scene*? That was epic.
- Me: Whoa. Hold on. I said I loved the book, but I honestly don't remember a thing that happened in it.
Problems We Readers Sometimes Face.
- 1: Putting your bookmark down so you can read, but then can't find it afterwards.
- 2: When you can feel someone staring at you because you're reading a book with a suspicious looking cover.
- 3: Fighting the urge to pull out a book to read because you're really bored at an event.
- 4: Wishing that you could live in the city so you could go to the city park and read--while looking very sophisticated because you're reading in the city.
- 5: Being unable to stop judging someone because s/he doesn't read.
- 6: You can't fight the urge to read the book that inspired a popular film.
- 7: Your thoughts are always everywhere after you read a book--not just your emotions, but your existentialistic thoughts. We're all curious geniuses deep down.
- 8: You're getting sick and tired of telling people that you can never have enough books.
- 9: You're a book collector, not a hoarder. Is that so hard to understand?
- 10: Always having that ONE person in your life who will rush you through a book store. We've all met a person like that--now you just have to never take him/her with you again.
- 11: Having fantasies about reading in a cafe where, oh la la, you meet your future spouse who will introduce him/herself by saying, "Oh, I just love that book!"
- Have anymore? Feel free to add!
Problems We Readers Sometimes Face.
- 1: Putting your bookmark down so you can read, but then can't find it afterwards.
- 2: When you can feel someone staring at you because you're reading a book with a suspicious looking cover.
- 3: Fighting the urge to pull out a book to read because you're really bored at an event.
- 4: Wishing that you could live in the city so you could go to the city park and read--while looking very sophisticated because you're reading in the city.
- 5: Being unable to stop judging someone because s/he doesn't read.
- 6: You can't fight the urge to read the book that inspired a popular film.
- 7: Your thoughts are always everywhere after you read a book--not just your emotions, but your existentialistic thoughts. We're all curious geniuses deep down.
- 8: You're getting sick and tired of telling people that you can never have enough books.
- 9: You're a book collector, not a hoarder. Is that so hard to understand?
- 10: Always having that ONE person in your life who will rush you through a book store. We've all met a person like that--now you just have to never take him/her with you again.
- 11: Having fantasies about reading in a cafe where, oh la la, you meet your future spouse who will introduce him/herself by saying, "Oh, I just love that book!"
- Have anymore? Feel free to add!
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