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“Ali nisam mogao a da se živ ne pojedem danima razmišljajući o tome kako znati što je za tebe dobro ili loše, koja je odluka ispravna ili pogrešna.
Kako na bezbrojnim životnim raskrižjima znati koji put vodi u propast, a koji ka sreći koja je ipak samo zakratko odgodi taj naš posljednji pad koji će jednog, možda baš poput današnjeg vedrog i lijepog jesenjeg dana doći, ma što god miu međuvremenu činili ili propuštali da učinimo ...
Možeš bježati cijeloga života, no ne možeš pobjeći od onog što nosiš u sebi, a u sebi nosiš baš sve.”
― Bekim Sejranović

“A riblje raspoloženje, opet, ovisilo je o suncu, mjesecu, temperaturi, vodostaju i bezbroj drugih varijabli koje ne možeš ni spoznati, a kamoli kontrolirati. I zato kad mi netko kaže da je svatko kovač svoje sreće, znak je to potpune ignorancije. Zatim taj netko kaže: - Ali to je rekao Einstein. Kao da genijalci nemaju pravo lupiti glupost, kao da netko može biti genijalan svaki jebeni trenutak svog života. A da ne spominjem kako je ta rečenica izvučena iz tko zna kojeg konteksta, i kako je može pobiti svako dijete rođeno u siromaštvu afričkih ili indijskih slamova. Nije svatko kovač svog života. Nije nitko. Na neke stvari možeš utjecati, a na neke ne. Nešto kuješ, a nešto nosiš kako ti je skovano.”
― Bekim Sejranović

“Ako čovjek nauči živjeti sam sa čitavim sobom, nositi svoje putne torbe pune potisnutih sramotnih i teških stvari, ponekad ih otvori i pogleda, onako, uzme dug tren i pogleda svu tu trulež i sve to smeće... Bolje će se razumjeti, ako ništa drugo. I biti sretniji. I biti fajter u životu, fer prema sebi valjda. Što god da si prošao, sada si ovdje, preživio si, stojiš na dvije noge, sa svojom bagažom i demonima. Trebaš napraviti korak, i to je sve.”
― Kristian Novak, Črna mati zemla

“To je izvorno moj osjećaj, ali su ga oni zapisali prije mene. Je li to ono što voliš u književnosti, razlog zbog čega neke pisce više voliš nego neke druge; je li to, dakle, ono kada netko piše o nečemu što već od prije nosiš u sebi, ali do tada nisi uspio, želio ili se usuđivao izraziti onako kako to uspijevaju tebi omiljeni pisci. Oni čije knjige čitaš po nekoliko puta, autori koji pišu baš kao što se osjećaš, pogode ti žicu, zaraze te, opčine svojim skladnim rečenicama a da i ne znaš točno zašto, pa im se stalno iznova vraćaš. Ponekad ti se čini kako si i sam mogao napisati takvo što, samo kad bi imao malo više vremena, strpljenja i, što je najvažnije, hrabrosti pretvoriti svoje osjećaje u pisanu riječ, zaviriti u skrivene kutke vlastite duše kojih ima više nego naslućuješ i razgolititi se pred čitateljstvom.
Ono što volimo dok čitamo neku knjigu su zapravo osjećaji ili misli koje prepoznajemo kao svoje. Volimo se prepoznati u knjizi, i to je sve.”
― Bekim Sejranović, Dnevnik jednog nomada

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pur whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?

there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do you?”
― charles bukowski

“Now mind is clear
as a cloudless sky.
Time then to make a
home in wilderness.

What have I done but
wander with my eyes
in the trees? So I
will build: wife,
family, and seek
for neighbors.

Or I
perish of lonesomeness
or want of food or
lightning or the bear
(must tame the hart
and wear the bear).

And maybe make an image
of my wandering, a little
image—shrine by the
roadside to signify
to traveler that I live
here in the wilderness
awake and at home.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears out? Not that of which we are made, that is certain. We wither and fade away, we perish, because the desire to live is extinguished. And why does this most potent flame die out? For lack of faith. From the time we are born we are told that we are mortal. From the time we are able to understand words we are taught that we must kill in order to survive. In season and out we are reminded that, no matter how intelligently, reasonably or wisely we live, we shall become sick and die. We are inoculated with the idea of death almost from birth. Is it any wonder that we die?”
― Henry Miller, Plexus

“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don't swim in the same slough.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and
stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.

invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.

reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is
but only on the terms that you have invented
and reinvented.

be self-taught.

and reinvent your life because you must;
it is your life and
its history
and the present
belong only to
you.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
― James Baldwin

“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?”
― Jack Kerouac , The Subterraneans

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. ”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Ideal umjetnika: tiho živjeti i biti u sve dane zaposlen stvaranjem u najraznoličnijim formama, ali stvaranjem jedino i davanjem uvijek, da se nema vremena da živi i da se ima od svih radosti samo jednu jedinu: veliku radost stvaranja, a potom mirno iščeznuti i ostaviti se u boji, u liniji, u riječi, u gestu, u zvuku, da bi se svijetlilo vijekovima i grijalo svoje i svakog.”
― Ivo Andrić, Staze, lica, predeli

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Kad si jako mali, jedna si osoba. Kasnije se praviš da si barem dvije, pa onda tri i tako to ide dok ne odrasteš. Bio sam mnogo djece, a u meni je bilo samo malo djetinjstva.”
― Kristian Novak, Črna mati zemla

“Sjećaš se kad smo ono jednom pričali o tome kako se ljudi vide jedino ponegdje u ogledalima i u izlozima, pa i tada brzo namještaju izraze lica, i zato misle da hodaju po svijetu izgledajući kao vlastite fotografije na osobnim iskaznicama? I da ponekad nisu svjesni koliko često zapravo odaju svoje razočaranje, gađenje, Nisu svjesni malih gesti, izdaha i tikova koji govore ono što oni nikada ne bi izgovorili. Pretvaranje i sudjelovanje u tuđem pretvaranju omogućuje da živimo u koliko-toliko uređenom svijetu.”
― Kristian Novak, Črna mati zemla

“they say that time heals all things,
they say you can always forget;
but the smiles and the tears across the years
they twist my heart strings yet!”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Vraćajući se, susrećem vlastite tragove u pijesku. Mali dokaz da postojim – ja sam neka vrsta anđeoskog bića, u isto vrijeme duboko u meni vrag se pravi da spava. Osvaja prostor. Vremena ima na bacanje i na kraju, kako to već ide, uvući će me u igru i slomiti mi krila. I tek kad se to odigra, kad mu đavo slomi krila, u čovjeku se javlja želja da poleti, da sagleda stvari iz te anđeoske perspektive. Želja se izobliči u žal, bijes, ljubomoru i to što više nećeš poletjeti, a htio bi, to te nekako najbolje definira kao ljudsko biće.”
― Zoran Pilić, Svijet prije tebe

“Plašila me već i sama mogućnost da zapravo ništa od onoga što nas lomi i melje ne prolazi, nego samo mijenja oblik - i ostaje s nama do kraja.”
― Zoran Pilić, Svijet prije tebe

“In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. If the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve?

The essence of man is imperfection. Know that you're going to make mistakes. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. Wake up and realize this: Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.

Achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic.

Procrastination is too high a price to pay for fear of failure. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. Forget motivation. Just do it. Act your way into feeling, not wait for positive emotions to carry you forward.

Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience.

Life is playing a poor hand well. The greatest battle you wage against failure occurs on the inside, not the outside.

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. If you are continually experiencing trouble or facing obstacles, then you should check to make sure that you are not the problem.

Be more concerned with what you can give rather than what you can get because giving truly is the highest level of living.

Embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Everything in life brings risk. It's true that you risk failure if you try something bold because you might miss it. But you also risk failure if you stand still and don't try anything new.

The less you venture out, the greater your risk of failure. Ironically the more you risk failure — and actually fail — the greater your chances of success.

If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough. And that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve.

The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.

Determining what went wrong in a situation has value. But taking that analysis another step and figuring out how to use it to your benefit is the real difference maker when it comes to failing forward. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.

The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed, or did you fail because you stopped trying?

Commitment makes you capable of failing forward until you reach your goals. Cutting corners is really a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline.

Successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Nothing worth achieving comes easily. The only way to fail forward and achieve your dreams is to cultivate tenacity and persistence.

Never say die. Never be satisfied. Be stubborn. Be persistent. Integrity is a must. Anything worth having is worth striving for with all your might.

If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it. Success is in the journey, the continual process. And no matter how hard you work, you will not create the perfect plan or execute it without error. You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail.

The next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved, recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”
― John Maxwell, Failing Forward

“Ne gunđam i ne žalim se (ne znam zašto bih), a ljudi se čude i kao da im je krivo što sam ja miran i veseo. A ja se njima čudim što gube vrijeme na nerazumnosti, bolje bi im bilo da žive.
Ali im to ne kažem, ljudi ne vole kad im se govori istina. I žalim ih što se opterećuju nevoljama bez kojih bi mogli da budu. Dosta nam je nevolja bez kojih se ne može.”
― Mesa Selimovic, Ostrvo