Reader's Digest Quotes:

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual, Social Interaction, Inner Darkness

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

topic: Love, Life, Determination, Great Marriage, Inspirational Children

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

- Brendan Gill

topic: Life, Ideas, Favors, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Living Life

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Moving, Funny Relationship, Florida, Off The Wall, Reader's Digest

Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.

- Darynda Jones

source: Darynda Jones (2011). “For I Have Sinned (A Charley Davidson Story): A HeroesandHeartbreakers.com Original”, p.58, Macmillan

topic: Coffee, Chocolate, Together, Subscription, Nobel Peace Prize

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

- Mordecai Richler

source: Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

topic: Meaningful, Book, Addiction, Hard Core, Reader's Digest

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

- Gary Coleman

topic: Intelligent, Opinion, Journalism, Reader's Digest

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

topic: People, Deep Thought, Pages, Reader's Digest, Hitchhikers Guide

...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Pain, Thinking, Ideas, Personal Change, Reader's Digest

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.

- Steven Wright

topic: Reading, Machines, Done, Speed Reading, Reader's Digest