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This Is How Reading Is Supposed to Go - Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic
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This Is How Reading Is Supposed to Go

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

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The beatings our books take in the process [of reading them]—it's a beautiful sight. It's a sign they are doing their job. It's evidence of accumulated hours and hopefully much wisdom, too. It's the highest praise you can give an author—to really engage with the material, to make it your own, to have a real two-sided conversation.

Stoics Don't Read Books; They Devour Them

Books are made to be broken in. They are mines to be dug, wells to be drawn from, sturdy posts to lean on, shoulders to cry on.

Stoics Don't Read Books; They Devour Them
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