Indri Juwono > Indri's Quotes

“Namun pada saat itupun aku tahu bahwa setiap kali membuka sebuah buku, aku akan bisa memandang sepetak langit. Dan jika aku membaca sebuah kalimat baru, aku akan sedikit lebih banyak tahu dibandingkan sebelumnya. Dan segala yang kubaca akan membuat dunia dan diriku sendiri menjadi lebih besar dan lebih luas.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping”
― Bo Derek

“if one day you feel like crying...
call me
I don't promise that
I will make you laugh

But I can cry with you.

If one day you want to run away
Don't be afraid to call me.
I don't promise to ask you to stop,

But I can run with you.

If one day you don't want to listen to anyone
call me
i promise to be there for you
but i also promise to remain quiet

But...
If one day you call
and there is no answer...
come fast to see me..

Perhaps I need you.”
― Robert J. Lavery

“sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“..Pakaian kita patutlah sepadan dengan pencaharian kita. Kalau kita
telah bersepatu, hendaknya di rumah pun duduk di atas kursi atau di
atas tikar permadani, tidur di atas katil, makan cukup, gulai jangan
sambal terasi berganti dengan sambal belacan sahaja.
Aku ini, itulah sebabnya maka tak sepakat dengan kelakuan
kebanyakan orang zaman sekarang. Dasi berjela-jela setengah meter,
uang pun kuntal kantil di dada, tetapi kantung melayang ditiup angin.
Sampai di rumah mulut disempal dengan daun ubi campur sambal terasi.”
― Mohammad Kasim

“Dan seorang pahlawan adalah seorang yang mengundurkan diri untuk dilupakan seperti kita melupakan yang mati untuk revolusi .”
― Soe Hok Gie, Catatan Seorang Demonstran

“Kesalahan orang-orang pandai ialah menganggap yang lain bodoh, dan kesalahan orang-orang bodoh ialah menganggap orang-orang lain pandai”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer

“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...”
― Pamela Redmond Satran

“Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Child of All Nations

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs of Atuan

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“PESAN SEORANG AYAH KEPADA ANAK LELAKI:
Kau harus berani mengatakan "tidak" untuk yang salah dan "ya" untuk yang benar. Kau harus melindungi martabat rumahmu dengan menjaga saudara-saudara perempuanmu dan ibumu. Kau harus berani melindungi yang tertindas. Dan jika kau berkeluarga nanti, kau sudah mati sebagai lelaki, tapi kau berganti menjadi suami dan ayah. Kau harus selalu pulang ke rumah dan mengabdi kepada istri dan anak-anakmu. Kau harus bekerja dan menafkahi mereka. Kau harus jadi ayah dan suami yang bisa menjaga kehormatan mereka.”
― Gola Gong, Aku, Anak Matahari: Sebuah Memoar Pendidikan Keluarga yang Impresif

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Lebih baik bertengkar karena cinta
daripada diam kesepian menanggung benci
Sebab, hidup dengan seseorang yang dicinta
memang tidak sunyi dari sakit di raga
tapi, hidup tanpa seseorang yang mencinta
membuat orang mengundang rasa sakit di jiwa”
― Remy Sylado, 9 Oktober 1740: Drama Sejarah

“Tampaknya hanya buku yang paling pantas diceritakan dengan bangga oleh manusia beradab, bukan BMW, Mercedes, ataupun Volvo. Apabila ada manusia di zaman sekarang yang menyebut dirinya modern tetapi tidak mengindahkan buku, memilikinya, dan membacanya, maka dengan demikian manusia tersebut telah mengambil inisiatif menjadikan dirinya sebagai hewan.”
― Remy Sylado

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

“Namun satu hal pasti yang dapat kutarik kesimpulan dari semua ini, paling tidak untuk diriku sendiri, adalah: beranilah bermimpi! Beranilah memiliki keinginan! Walau pikiran sadar kita menafikan kemungkinan-kemungkinan itu, tetap beranilah menetapkan tujuan. Karena nyatanya, ketika kita berani memutuskan untuk menggapai mimpi kita, alam bawah sadar kita justru bekerja membantu kemungkinan-kemungkinan mimpi tersebut menjadi kenyataan. Dengan dan lewat cara yang tak pernah kita duga sebelumnya.”
― Daniel Mahendra

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“kadang yang perlu kita lakukan hanyalah bertanya dan itu mungkin membuat semua impian terwujud”
― Randy Pausch

“Penulis fiksi tidak bisa menyimpan rahasia. Untuk menyampaikan pesan kepada orang lain, seorang penulis harus bisa membuka dirinya - seluas dan sedalam mungkin - untuk dicela, dicemooh dan dilihat orang. Ini resiko profesi. Fiksi adalah bentuk tulisan paling jujur yang akan pernah kau temui. Imajinasi adalah manifestasi pikiran, iman, serta ketakutan. Tiga hal yang membentuk pribadi manusia. Tanpa imajinasi, kita - penulis - tidak punya apa-apa. ~ Winter Dreams”
― Maggie Tiojakin