We’ve all been there.  January 1st rolls around and we all make some kind of goal or promise to ourselves: I’m going to go to the gym more, I’m going to eat healthier, I’m going to read a book a week, I’m going to try to be less anxious, I’m going to volunteer more, I’m going to get a planner and be more organized, I’m going to get a promotion, etc.  How many times have we actually stuck with these goals?  *cue the crickets*  I know how it is.  I’ve been there too!  We do well for a while, but then we lose our momentum, life catches up with us, and soon this year’s goal becomes next year’s goal.  This doesn’t have to be the case, though!  All we need is a little motivation.  If you’ve created that daunting Goodread’s yearly goal for yourself, hopefully the quotes below will spark a new fire inside of you to inspire you to hit up your local library, Barnes & Noble, or used book store, allowing you to channel your inner Usain Bolt and accomplish your goal (and more).

• “No two persons ever read the same book.” - Edmund Wilson
• “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what book he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.” - Joseph Brodsky
• “All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.” - Ernest Hemingway
• “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” - Q. Somerset Maugham
• “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” - Carlos Rui Zafón

• “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.  The man who never reads lives only one.” - George Martin
• “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” - Oscar Wilde
• “There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.” - Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” - William Feather
• “Where is human nature so week as in the bookstore?” - Henry Ward Beecher
• “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.” - Abraham Lincoln
• “We read to know that we are not alone.” - William Nicholson
• “The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” - Kurt Vonnegut
• “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” - J.K. Rowling
• “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” - Mason Cooley
• “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” - Edmund Burke
• “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.  It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
• “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” - Edward P. Morgan
• “In the end, we'll all become stories.” - Margaret Atwood

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