Laskar Pelangi Quotes

“Hiduplah Untuk Memberi yang Sebanyak-banyaknya, Bukan untuk Menerima yang Sebanyak-banyaknya. (Pak Harfan)”
― Andrea Hirata, Laskar Pelangi

“Jika hati kita tulus berada di dekat orang berilmu, kita akan disinari pancaran pencerahan, karena sesungguhnya kepintaran sangat mudah menjalar.”
― Andrea Hirata, Laskar Pelangi

“Demikianlah karnaval kami setiap tahun. Tak melambangkan cita-cita. Mungkin karena kami tak berani bercita-cita.”
― Andrea Hirata, Laskar Pelangi

“Lintang was very rational; Mahar was a daydreamer. Mahar was easily inspired by just about anything. Like Lint- ang, Mahar also was a true genius—just a different kind of genius. This kind of genius isn’t easily understood by most people and is rarely considered “intelligent” by ordinary people’s standards.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“We have to have dreams, high dreams, Boi, and school is the road we start on. Don’t give up, Boi. Don’t ever give up.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“I drew up a promise deep in my heart: when I grew up, I would write a book for this teacher of mine.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“He opened our eyes to the possibility that we could become more than we had ever dreamed. He gave us encouragement, even though we were full of limitations.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“This is the amazing thing about being a child: the ability to quickly mend a broken heart after years of love”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“we survived the most immediate of threats: the threat of ourselves, our disbelief in the power of education.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“That scholarship was a ticket out of a life I couldn’t be proud of.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“This wasn’t fair. Lintang, who had fought to the death for education, now had to leave.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“It was all because of Lintang. If there had been no Lintang, we wouldn’t have dared to dream.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“لم يفقد باك هرفان الأمل، ولم يكف عن محاولاته في إقناع أولئك الأطفال بأن المعرفة تتعلق باحترام الذات، وأن تحصيل العلم فعل ولاء للخالق، وان المدرسة لم تكن دائماً مرتبطة بأهداف مادية؛ مثل الحصول على شهادة تؤمن لحاملها الرفاه، أن المدرسة في الواقع مبجًلة ومهيبة، أنها احتفاء بالإنسانية؛ أنها بهجة الدراسة وضوء الثقافة. هذا كان تعريف باك هرفان العظيم لمعنى العلم. إلا أن ذلك التنوير لم يصل إلى قلوب الاطفال الذين همُشهم التمييز، وأصابهم عمى إغراء السلع المادية”
― Andrea Hirata, Laskar Pelangi

“the most unfortunate in this world are the pessimistic.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“In Belitong Island, it wasn’t a giant corporation or the government that succeeded in restoring education as a basic human right for every citizen. It was the poor people themselves.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“I wanted to read Lintang’s name under an article in a scientific journal.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“I said nothing. It was clear that he was exhausted from fighting fate.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“But one sincere love is apparently more than enough to change one’s entire perception of love.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“Eryn had brought out the feeling that no matter how miserable or failed my life was, I was still a bit useful to the world.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“Bruce Lee smiled back at us.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“Mahar gave us the courage to compete. Lintang gave us the courage to dream.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“They were crazy together, but their true sweetheart was the dark world of shamanism.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“People seeing the two of them would assume they were a couple, a handsome young man and a pretty tomboyish girl always together, equally crazy.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“I soon realized that there were other beautiful things in this world besides love.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“It is not because your work lacked quality; no matter what kind of work we do, we must have discipline. Talented people with a bad attitude are useless.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“Just as stupidity often goes unrealized, some people are often unaware that they have been chosen, destined by God, to be betrothed to knowledge.”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“And Ikal, masya Allah—my God, Ibunda, that boy was sent by Satan!”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“Suddenly Lintang got up from his seat and went over to his father, took the form from his hands, and exclaimed, “I will be the one to fill out this form later, Ibunda Guru, after I have learned how to read and write!”
― Andrea Hirata, The Rainbow Troops

“أقنعنا بأن الحياة قد تكون سعيدة حتى مع الفقر، ما دام المرء يُعطي بصدق أكثر مما يأخذ.”
― أندريا هيراتا, Laskar Pelangi

“Nhưng thầy Harfan vẫn luôn cần mẫn cố gắng thuyết phục những đứa trẻ ấy rằng học thức thể hiện lòng tự trọng, rằng giáo dục thể hiện lòng sùng kính đối với đấng tạo hoá, rằng học tập không phải lúc nào cũng buộc chặt với những mục tiêu như lấy được bằng cấp hay trở nên giàu có. Học tập là cao quý, là ca tụng nhân bản, là niềm vui khi được cắp sách tới trường và là ánh sáng văn minh.”
― Andrea Hirata, Laskar Pelangi