Will Schwalbe Quotes

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

If I'd waited until I was well rested to read, I never would have read anything.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.

You don't have to have one emotion at a time.

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar.

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention...

And there's something you can always tell people who want to learn more about the world and who don't know how to find a cause to support. You can always tell them to read.

The Need to Read"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life’s questions, big and small.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask.

The thing about Americans, ” she said, “is that you’re very concerned about everything all the time.

Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!

You can only do what you can, and what doesn't get done, just doesn't get done.

...mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

It was the women of afghanistan, my mother believed, who-once they’d been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

Reading and naps, two of life's greatest pleasures, go especially well together.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask