Because books saved my life, literally, I’ve become close to them
– Malebo Sephodi
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- What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out. – Malebo Sephodi
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We do good works, not in order to be saved, but because we are saved; not in order to earn God’s favor, but with the favor of His help. – Alex Brett Harris
- Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning. – Martin Luther
- If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones. – Michael Muhammad Knight
- Christ has not called us to be popular, but to be faithful. We are not saved to be relevant to the crowds; we are saved to reflect Christ. – Dillon Burroughs
- Then he got more books. He saved all the books. – Dave Eggers
- So many mothers are unable to let their children go into the adult life and become literally attached to them giving rise to codependency – Sunday Adelaja
- In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you. – JK Rowling
- Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
- When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Who can say how many lives have been saved by books? – Michelle Cliff
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
- Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had. – Sapan Saxena
- Whenever a woman gets pregnant, she literally bets with her life. – Ikechukwu E Onyekwelonwu
- Falling in love is literally falling from your independence to let another control your life – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates. – Hilari Bell