Marija Simić > Marija's Quotes

“Jer, i najveće pustinje imaju svoje proleće, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo.”
― Ivo Andrić, Gospođica

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
― Albert Einstein

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
― Nikola Tesla

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
― Hermann Hesse

“We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.”
― Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation. ”
― Jonathan Larson

“The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
― John Wooden, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Sve su Drine ovog svijeta krive; nikada se one neće moći sve ni potpuno ispraviti; nikada ne smijemo prestati da ih ispravljamo.”
― Ivo Andrić

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― Rumi

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“To je bilo davno, ali ljudi griješe kada kažu da prošlost može da se pokopa.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.”
― Agatha Christie

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

“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars