Amina Sofic > Amina's Quotes

“Koliko puta ste poželjeli da vas nema, da izmaknete tuđim pogledima, da bar za tren budete skriveni od tuđih razmišljanja i sudova? Koliko ste puta, dakle, poželjeli da budete nevidljivi, dostupni i spoznatljivi samo sebi? Nevidljivost, fantazija rasplamtjele mašte, nevidljivost kao jeftina dosjetka iz starih naučno-fantastičnih i horor filmova. I tu se stvar završava. Svijet, i mi u njemu, uvijek će ostati vidljiv, možda i previše vidljiv, i dok se probijamo kroz njegovu iritirajuću očitost, samo ponekad pomislit ćemo kako bi dobro bilo biti nevidljiv.”
― Karim Zaimović, Tajna džema od malina

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”
― David Gemmell, Fall of Kings

“Remember, this is important: Never trust that you will be saved by anyone.”
― Amanda Boyden, Pretty Little Dirty

“She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“Respect could build an empire. Trust could make it unbreakable. Love could make it last forever.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Touch of Darkness

“I’ve never held the view that women are better than men, or that the best way to improve the world is for women to gain more power than men. I think male dominance is harmful to society because any dominance is harmful: It means society is governed by a false hierarchy where power and opportunity are awarded according to gender, age, wealth, and privilege—not according to skill, effort, talent, or accomplishments. When a culture of dominance is broken, it activates power in all of us. So the goal for me is not the rise of women and the fall of man. It is the rise of both women and men from a struggle for dominance to a state of partnership.
If the goal is partnership between women and men, why do I put so much emphasis on women’s empowerment and women’s groups? My answer is that we draw strength from each other, and we often have to convince ourselves that we deserve an equal partnership before we get one.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

“Memento Mori. Remember that you will die.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Sve će proći. Ali, kakva je to utjeha? Proći će i radost, proći će i ljubav, proći će i život. Zar je nada u tome da sve prođe?”
― Mesa Selimovic, The Fortress