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The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving? ↗

— George MacDonald

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membaca dan membeli buku-buku, untuk menilai diri sendiri, menilai orang lain dan menemukan banyak inspirasi. menulis menjadi sebuah jalan untuk belajar, menata hati, dan belajar untuk arti sebuah kejujuran yang paling kecil sekalipun, tanpa harus menyakiti siapapun. ↗

— yulia takuma dewi

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Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#philosophical #wry #inspirational

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang. ↗

— China Miéville

#hunches #inspiration #saints #inspirational

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem. ↗

— Maurice Makalu

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Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others. ↗

— José Luís Peixoto

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Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#life #writing #inspirational

Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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