Books play a very important role in our life. There goes the saying, “A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge”.
Books not only help in increasing our knowledge but also help in framing our own perspective about life. And to be frank that’s one of the most important skills we all need to learn in today’s world of information overload.
Being from the gang that revels the release of every good book, I can unequivocally say books have been my greatest source of happiness.
To corroborate my words, here I’m sharing 20 quotes from some of the famous personalities that prove books and happiness go together.
#1:
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.
#2:
Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.
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#3:
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered.
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#4:
It is simply a matter,” he explained to April, “of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.
― Season of Mists
#5:
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words.
― To Own a Dragon
#6: 
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
#7:
An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.
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#8:
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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#9:
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
#10:
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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#11:
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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#12:
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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#13:
We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.
#14:
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
#15:
Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
— J.K. Rowling
#16:
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
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#17:
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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#18:
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.
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#19:
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
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That’s all we have for today. Thanks a lot for tuning in to HappinessDhaba. Do let me know your views on these in the comment section. And, don’t forget to add more to the list.
Signing off with my favorite words.
Zindagi Zindabad!
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