Happy National Reading Day Quotes “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
Happy National Reading Day Quotes
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“’One must always be careful of books,’ said Tessa, ‘and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.’”
Voracious readers would agree that reading is an amazing form of entertainment. Reading books also provides a lot of advantages. I read that it strengthens our brain, lessens stress, makes us sleep better—the list goes on and on.
I am currently reading Stephen Covey’s ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’. What about you? Which book will you choose to begin your reading journey? And if you are a voracious reader, please leave some recommendations for me in the comments.
So, on National Reading Day, let us try to make reading books an integral part of our life. For the uninitiated, National Reading Day is observed to mark the death anniversary of PN Panicker, the ‘Father of the Library Movement’ in Kerala.
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
Significance of National Reading Day
“A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.”
“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
“Literacy in itself is no education. Literacy is not the end of education or even the beginning. By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man-body, mind and spirit.”
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
Today is International Literacy Day! Share our passion and help shine a light on the need for basic literacy skills. Help us write the future. Love learning.
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.”
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“If you’re not reading – with your heart as well as your brain – you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you’ll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”
Celebrate National Reading Day
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
“World of books is the best place where you would want to be if you will start to enjoy reading. Warm wishes on Young Reading Day to all.
“Warm wishes on Young Reading Day to all the kids. Always read for fun and you will have so many new things to learn in life.”
Reading improves your vocabulary and develops your communication skills. It helps you learn how to use your language creatively. Not only does it improve your communication but it also makes you a better writer. Good communication is important in every aspect of life.
When I read a book, I read it for pleasure. I just indulge myself in reading and experience a whole new world. Once I start reading a book I get so captivated I never want to leave it until I finish. It always gives a lot of pleasure to read a good book and cherish it for a lifetime.
Reading takes you to the world of imagination and enhances your creativity. Reading helps you explore life from different perspectives. While you read books you are building new and creative thoughts, images and opinions in your mind. It makes you think creatively, fantasize and use your imagination.
“If you have inculcated the habit of reading then you have embraced a habit that will take you much ahead in life. Happy Young Reading Day.”
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
In the past, books were valued so much that people chain them to shelves to prevent theft.
Twelve publishers rejected Harry Potter, and then Bloomsbury accepted it. J.K. Rowling also changed her pen name for neutrality as the publisher believed this would boost sales.
Quotes About Reading and Books
Children with a home library of as little as 20 books receive three more years of education than those who don’t.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.
It was 1990 in Kerala when P.N. Panicker pioneered the cultural movement to initiate advocacy of reading. He initiated the National reading day with the establishment of the first-ever library in Kerala.
“Volunteering is at the very core of being a human. No one has made it through life without someone else’s help.”
“I urge young people to consider public service, whether they do it now by volunteering in their community or prepare for public service as an adult.”
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
Not only these, but the day can also be celebrated by exchanging important learnings, and stories of reading journeys of peer groups. Other than these, organizations, schools, and colleges can also celebrate this day by organizing activities.
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.”
“Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.”
“Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies The man who never reads lives only one.
Some of the activities as suggested by the PN Panicker Foundation include a Digital Reading Pledge, and a webinar on the importance of reading, Digital Library and Intellectual Property Rights etc.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Children should learn that reading is a pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”
Reading can be a constant
“If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.”
Every fifth adult in the world cannot read or write, as compared to every fourth teenager. Women make up two-thirds of these people!
The Holy Bible is the best-selling book ever, with over 5 billion copies sold. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung had around a billion sales, while 800 million copies of the Quran have been sold.
Research suggests that reading aloud helps improve fluency and is also a more effective way of retaining information. Therefore, I would recommend reading aloud instead of silent reading.
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Reading a good book takes you in a new world and helps you relieve your day to day stress. It has several positive effects on your mind, body, and soul. It stimulates your brain muscles and keeps your brain healthy and strong.
Books enable you to have a glimpse into cultures, traditions, arts, history, geography, health, psychology and several other subjects and aspects of life. You get an amazing amount of knowledge and information from books.
Reading helps you develop positive thinking. Reading is important because it develops your mind and gives you excessive knowledge and lessons of life. It helps you understand the world around you better. It keeps your mind active and enhances your creative ability.
“Kids who read every day are the kids who are exposed to so many new things in life. Wishing a very Happy Young Reading Day.”
“The function of education is to teach one to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.”
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”
Best National Young Readers Day Wishes Messages
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.”
There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. The love of books is the best of all. Happy International Literacy Day!
“International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere.”
“Volunteerism is the voice of the people put into action. These actions shape and mold the present into a future of which we can all be proud.”
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame.”
“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.”
National History Day dates back to the 1990s. And, the celebration started in 1996. But, with each passing year, the national reading day is gaining significance, and people, and organizations are coming forward to appreciate, and embrace the importance of this day.
“Reading a book is the most beautiful thing that will always make you feel good. Wishing a very Happy Young Reading Day.”
“Wishing a very Happy Young Reading Day to you. Never ever hesitate from picking a book and enjoying it and only then you would know how much amazing they are.”
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.