Reading is the ultimate escape from yourself as it allows you to seek refuge in worlds other than your own. This is healing for an overwrought soul as it creates the necessary distance from yourself to gain better understanding and clarity about yourself and your world. It simultaneously expands your mind to the endless possibilities out there and creates the desire to attract the desirable and delightful of others’ experiences into your sphere. Reading is the one activity that wards off loneliness, overthinking and reduces stress. It takes the focus off yourself by introducing you to a wider perspective. Reading can have you rolling with laughter or enthralled by the gripping escapades of others. 

A good book truly expands your mind and as a consequence your world as it allows you to tap into other people's experiences and fantasies, which fuel your own potential exponentially. 

Books offer you the much-needed respite from the drudgery of your everyday life. It injects elements of the delightful, the fantastical and the downright inspiring into the mundane that infuses you with the color of endless possibilities. 

Reading books enlarges your world and deepens your understanding as it helps you make sense of your life and the world at large. It helps you learn anything and everything. It is like having the most patient of teachers at your fingertips.  

Good books stretch your imagination as it opens you to the vistas of other people's lives. Reading allows you to take flight into whole new worlds without having to take a step. This escape from reality is not futile as your reading will serve to ignite your adventurous spirit as well as strengthen your fortitude and hope. This will help you traverse the trials and travails of life. It will heighten your passion to explore yourself and your world at large. 

Reading can also inspire your creativity as it allows you to access the necessary knowledge to help you realise your dreams. Reading is a great and cost-effective way to level up as it helps you to develop and grow exponentially. 

 Good books can leave you mentally exhausted as it triggers you emotionally, leaving you feeling like you yourself have gone through the travails and triumphs of the various characters. This allows you the opportunity to live vicariously many varied lives in one lifetime. Make no mistake, the gems of wisdom you pick up in books lies seeded within you ready to sprout and blossom into ideas when needed. A good read is never a waste of time, it is exercise for your mind and food for your soul. It reduces stress and enhances your sense of well-being no end. So, when next you feel trapped in your mental prison take a book and escape within its pages, to return refreshed in body, mind and spirit. 

I hope that these quotes will intrigue you sufficiently to cultivate a consistent reading habit.  So go ahead, grab the key by starting to read books that allows entry into these unfathomable and magical worlds. 

To read is to fly. It is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries - A.C. Grayling 

Reading is the proverbial key that helps you to level up as it brings you knowledge gathered through the ages to digest in order to expand your worldview and to awaken your adventurous spirit to step into the world and grab ahold of the endless possibilities. 

Books are a unique portable magic - Stephen King 

Reading takes you places without you having to leave where you are. You traverse the universe and you get to live so many diverse lives as you submerge yourself emotionally into the stories and emerge enriched by your reading. 

We lose ourselves in books. We find ourselves there too -Anonymous 

Reading allows us to get away from ourselves and our problems. For a magical moment we are caught up in our reading having escaped our endless navel-gazing tendencies. This emotional distancing oftentimes brings us the much-needed clarity to tackle our problems reinvigorated and equipped with better understanding of ourselves and our situation. 

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

Reading allows you to gain knowledge from the best minds which expand your mind and your worldview, allowing you to soar to hallowed kingdoms even if you are physically confined. 

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one - George R.R Martin 

When you read you get to experience vicariously the life of another, their hopes, their fears, their triumphs and their travails and when you close the book you have been so emotionally entangled with the storyline that it feels that you have truly lived the tale.  

Reading-the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay - William Styron 

Reading allows for a momentary escape from your life and expand your mind and allow you to soar to different places, and people your world with the varied characters of the stories, leaving you feeling less alone.