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“Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.”
― lin yutang, The Importance of Living

“Nếu muốn học "thấy" hãy "bịt mắt lại mà tưởng tượng trước bằng một viễn tượng trong tâm hồn"; nếu muốn học "nghe" hãy "bịt tai lại"; nếu muốn học cách "đọc sách" hãy xếp sách lại mà phỏng đoán trước những gì ta sắp đọc"... đó là để mà lóng nghe cái tiếng dội của tâm hồn. Platon nói rất sâu sắc (...). Hiểu biết, thực ra là một sự nhận ra những gì ta đã biết. Nghĩa là, cái thật biết là cái biết do mình đã tìm ra. Ta chỉ thấy được những gì ta đã thấy. Ta chỉ thích được những gì ta đã thích.”
― Nguyễn Duy cần, Tôi Tự Học

“And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may feel differently. Two months after that, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.”
― Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
― James Joyce, The Dead

“Sống bám đá chiến đấu, chết hoá đá, trở thành bất tử.”
― Nguyễn Đức Huy, Hồi ức chiến tranh Vị Xuyên

“Nhật ký ghi:
10/9/1972.
Chiến tranh là cái gì nhỉ. Cuộc sống chờn vờn như bóng ma. Ai là kẻ ưa thích chiến tranh? Không, không phải chúng ta. Chúng ta hiểu rất rõ chiến tranh là một cái gì gần, rất gần với sự kết thúc. Nó kết thúc hết, tâm hồn, ước mơ, lý tưởng, tâm tư, thiên hướng…
Chúng ta phải hy sinh cho cuộc sống. Đúng, cái cần bảo vệ nâng niu hơn hết chính là cuộc sống. Chúng ta ra đi, xông pha để dùng cái chết ngăn ngừa cái chết.
Có ai biết bao nhiêu thây rơi trên chiến trường này. Có ai hay bao nhiêu những suy nghĩ, tư duy, tài năng bị dập tắt nơi giao tranh khốc liệt này. Hãy trông và suy nghĩ đi, hỡi những người đang sống. Trách nhiệm của cuộc sống nặng lên gấp ngàn lần, mỗi lần bởi một thân người ngã xuống. Ai đã từng bôn ba khói lửa, kề tai với những âm thanh của địa ngục thì sẽ thấy hết được cái quý giá vô cùng của cuộc sống, sẽ thấy hết được sự cao cả của mình.”
― Trần Luân Tín, Được Sống Và Kể Lại

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso

“What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.”
― John Green

“I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew that you were second-rate. But I loved you. It's comic when I think how hard I tried to be amused by the things that amused you and how anxious I was to hide from you that I wasn't ignorant and vulgar and scandal-mongering and stupid. I knew how frightened you were of intelligence and I did everything I could to make you think me as big a fool as the rest of the men you knew. I knew that you'd only married me for convenience. I loved you so much, I didn't care. Most people, as far as I can see, when they're in love with someone and the love isn't returned feel that they have a grievance. They grow angry and bitter. I wasn't like that. I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should. I never thought myself very lovable. I was thankful to be allowed to love you and I was enraptured when now and then I thought you were pleased with me or when I noticed in your eyes a gleam of good-humored affection. I tried not to bore you with my love; I knew I couldn't afford to do that and I was always on the lookout for the first sign that you were impatient with my affection. What most husbands expect as a right I was prepared to receive as a favor.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham