World Book Day

 "Your sacred space is where you find yourself, again and again" ~ Joseph Campbell

You have them indoors and outdoors.  One definitely is here. #Books, #Home, #Office.  #Gratitude. 

'Read your way', the theme for this World Book Day, Today.

The celebration was initially held on Cervantes' birthday, October 7, before being moved to his death date, April 23, 1930. 23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.

World Book Day was created by UNESCO on 23rd April 1995 as a worldwide celebration of books and reading. World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.In other countries around the world, World Book Day is celebrated on the 23rd of April, but the UK opted for a different date. The reason for this is because, had the UK kept the original date, the event would have clashed with the Easter school holidays.

World Book Day is about celebrating reading all year round, not just on the day. 

Here are few quotes on books:

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss

"A book is a dream that you hold in your hand." - Neil Gaiman

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." - Ernest Hemingway

"Books are the mirrors of the soul." - Virginia Woolf

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." - Jane Austen

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." - Charles Baudelaire

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." - Anna Quindlen

"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well." - Mark Haddon

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.'" - Helen Exley

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." - Edward P. Morgan

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles William Eliot

"The book you don't read won't help." - Jim Rohn

"Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world." - Walter Pater

"A house without books is like a room without windows." - Heinrich Mann

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman

"A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." - Jesse Lee Bennett

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Joseph Addison

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." - Chinese Proverb

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - René Descartes

'That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet'' - Jhumpa Lahiri

''Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world'' - Malala Yousafzai

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me'' - C.S. Lewis

“So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ― Mark Twain

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

"There is no Frigate like a Book. To take us Lands away.” – Emily Dickinson, in honor of World Book Day