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"Ingatlah! Bahwa dari dalam kubur, suara saya akan lebih keras daripada dari atas bumi"
— Tan Malaka

5 people liked it

"For you, a thousand times over"
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

235 people liked it

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: death, inspirational
1,446 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,734 people liked it

"Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing."
— Anderson Cooper (Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival)

tags: children, danger, death
7 people liked it

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: better, empathy, life
338 people liked it

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.-Atticus Finch"
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: courage
399 people liked it

"I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. "
— Orhan Pamuk (My Name Is Red)

tags: first-sentence
4 people liked it

"It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: changing-people, changing-peoples-minds
13 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,608 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,216 people liked it

"As a reminder, that sometimes, history gives great enough opportunity to those with ideals and who struggle to test their ability to realize their dreams,"
— Sjahrir

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"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
— Nick Hornby

tags: books
162 people liked it

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."
— Harold Bloom

tags: books, solitude
25 people liked it

"We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure."
— Harold Bloom

10 people liked it

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: love
436 people liked it

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: reading
2,982 people liked it

"How many loved your moments of glad grace and loved your beauty with love false or true? But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you and loved the sorrows of your changing face. "When You Are Old And Gray""
— William Butler Yeats

17 people liked it

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
— William Butler Yeats

7 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,623 people liked it

"Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini?"
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

tags: -, -c-emas, -indonesia, -itu, 1995-, ananta, badai, bersama, dalam, hanya, interview, kopi-, no-10, pramoedya, segelas, toersintesa-, viii
29 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,961 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,008 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,463 people liked it

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

tags: family, first-sentence
176 people liked it

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

tags: god, grief, night
75 people liked it

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
866 people liked it

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

tags: family, inspirational, life, parents
116 people liked it

"When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

66 people liked it

"This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

34 people liked it

"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

34 people liked it

"That's the thing. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

15 people liked it

"A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers."
— Mitch Albom

tags: books
7 people liked it

"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

tags: loss
75 people liked it

"I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory."
— Mitch Albom

tags: food, mother
13 people liked it

"Hiduplah Untuk Memberi yang Sebanyak-banyaknya, Bukan untuk Menerima yang Sebanyak-banyaknya. (Pak Harfan)"
— Andrea Hirata (Laskar Pelangi)

tags: inspirational
20 people liked it

"Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so."
— Thomas Hardy

5 people liked it

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. "
— W. Somerset Maugham

96 people liked it

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
— W. Somerset Maugham

tags: books, maugham, meaning, somerset
22 people liked it

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best. "
— W. Somerset Maugham

14 people liked it

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."
— Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)

94 people liked it

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
683 people liked it

"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: books
1,361 people liked it

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: books, humor
1,213 people liked it

"Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

tags: books, reading
855 people liked it

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading
372 people liked it

"To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater."
— Bono

16 people liked it

"Dear me, how I love a library."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

55 people liked it

"But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch."
— Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy: A Novel)

tags: reading
7 people liked it

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