Reading changes lives

Author: Badan
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Scholars on reading, renowned figures on life, the wisdom of masters, and the shortcuts to success. This book is a life reading history personally written by 33 contemporary Chinese cultural celebrities. Reading is for living. Flaubert said so. Reading is for living with dignity and nobility. Reading makes one wise, open-minded, elegant, and beautiful. Reading can change one's life. Reading cannot change the length of life, but it can change its width. Reading allows life to be vast and boundless, full of waves and surges, rushing and roaring, grand and exhilarating within the limited length. Reading cannot change the physical appearance of life, but it can change its spirit. External appearance and material composition are based on genetics and cannot be changed, but the human spirit can flourish and become diverse through reading. Reading cannot change the starting point of life, but it can change its endpoint. Reading enables life to never submit to fate, to grasp oneself, and to persistently move towards the farthest reaches of dreams. Regardless of one's birth status, reading can change the coordinates and trajectory of life, composing the symphony of life. Reading transcends time and space, opening up an infinite starry sky for humanity to gaze at the world. Humanity has only a hundred years of aerospace history, yet reading is the flying machine of the human soul, the earliest "spacecraft for carrying passengers." It keeps pace with life but can reverse time to reach the distant future and reveal the elusive past. It can open up countless dimensional spaces, allowing thoughts to roam freely and reach great minds. Reading is the birthplace of happiness. Rigorous logic, profound thoughts, lofty realms, and great souls all embrace the readers. You can see across the world, connect with the past, converse with the wise, and dialogue with the great. To be a reader is to be a happy person. Reading gives words eternal value; it is more ethereal than images, clearer than memory, and deeper than meditation. It allows you to stand on the shoulders of giants and soar above the thoughts of the. Reading is a vital pathway to socialization, transforming natural beings into social beings. Much of the world, life, and society we know stem from reading. The significance of reading lies in its ability to establish a spiritual world beyond secular life. A person's reading history is their spiritual development history. Reading enables people to transcend animality and avoid becoming mere puppets or lifeless corpses. To stop reading is to sever communication with the world and with the soul, and life then enters a dead cycle. It can be said that reading has saved us. To live, one must read. However, this alluring act of reading is not an innate instinct of humanity. People must learn to read to reach the realm of reading freedom. The process of learning to read determines whether one will be connected to reading throughout life.