Quotes - Afrianti Pratiwi (afriantipratiwi) Showing 1-30 of 36

#1

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

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#2

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9289 likes

#3

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

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#5

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

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#6

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

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#7

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2239 likes

#8

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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#9

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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#10

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

1734 likes

#11

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words

4783 likes

#12

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

tags: life

1662 likes

#13

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#14

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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#15

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#16

“aku gak mau sepuluh, dua puluh tahun dari hari ini, aku masih terus-terusan memikirkan orang yg sama. bingung di antara penyesalan dan penerimaan.”
― Dee, Perahu Kertas

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#17

“Kita memang tak pernah tahu apa yang dirindukan sampai sesuatu itu tiba di depan mata.”
― Dee, Supernova: Akar

tags: akar, dee-lestari, supernova

292 likes

#18

“Kadang - kadang pilihan yang terbaik adalah menerima...”
― Dee, Rectoverso

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#19

“Jingga di bahumu. Malam di depanmu. Dan bulan siaga sinari langkahmu. Teruslah berjalan. Teruslah melangkah. Kutahu kau tahu. Aku ada.”
― Dee, Rectoverso

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#20

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
― William Jennings Bryan

tags: achieved, change, choice, destiny

1366 likes

#21

“Kemenangan lahir dari proses, dari perjuangan. Sebanyak apa pun kamu mencari pengakuan dari orang lain, kamu tidak akan pernah bisa memuaskan dirimu sendiri. Karena kepuasanmu bukan berasal dari hatimu sendiri!”
― Evi Sri Rezeki, CineUs

tags: romance, school, sclub, teenlit

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#22