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  • #1
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #2
    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

  • #3
    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    John Muir

  • #4
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #5
    Carolyn Forché
    “The heart is the toughest part of the body.
    Tenderness is in the hands.”
    Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

  • #6
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

  • #7
    Leila S. Chudori
    “Jangan sekali-kali meminta maaf untuk mempertahankan prinsip!”
    Leila S. Chudori, Pulang

  • #8
    Leila S. Chudori
    “Setiap huruf berloncatan mencari jodoh membentuk kata; setiap kata meliuk, melesat, dan mungkin saling bertabrakan dan rebutan mendapatkan jodoh untuk membentuk daya puitik. Setiap huruf mempunyai ruh, mempunyai nyawa, dan memilih kehidupannya sendiri.”
    Leila S. Chudori, Pulang

  • #9
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer
    “seorang terpelajar harus sudah berbuat adil sejak dalam pikiran apalagi dalam perbuatan”
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer, This Earth of Mankind

  • #10
    Benjamin Spock
    “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
    Benjamin Spock

  • #11
    Dodie Smith
    “I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #12
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #13
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #14
    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #15
    Pablo Neruda
    “Tonight I can write the saddest lines
    I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
    Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

  • #16
    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #18
    Emmuska Orczy
    “The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

  • #19
    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    Wallace Stevens

  • #20
    Terry McMillan
    “Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”
    Terry McMillan, Getting to Happy

  • #21
    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    Norman Rush

  • #22
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “If you know the why, you can live any how.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #23
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • #24
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

  • #25
    “Mengaku sajalah, keberhasilan akan terasa hambar kalau tidak ada seseorang yang mengakuinya.”
    Devania Annesya, Muse

  • #26
    Willa Cather
    “Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
    Willa Cather, My Ántonia

  • #27
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #29
    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    Steven Spielberg

  • #30
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer
    “Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act.”
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
    tags: pity



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