That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
…mencintai itu, kadang mengumpulkan segala tabiat menyebalkan dari seseorang yang engkau cintai, memakinya, merasa tak sanggup lagi menjadi yang terbaik untuk dirinya, dan berpikir tak ada lagi jalan kembali, tapi tetap saja engkau tak sanggup benar-benar meninggalkannya. – Tasaro G.K.
Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade… – King James Gadsden
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. – Nelson Mandela
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. – J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. – Frances E. Willard
In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of. – C.S. Lewis
Can’t stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I’ll tell them what to do. Don’t get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland) – Douglas Adams
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Aeschylus
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. – Michel Houellebecq
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. – Frances E. Willard
