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To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples. ↗
Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion. ↗
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.... ↗
This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss… this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb. ↗
I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. ↗
Tetapi, orang besar tidak dilahirkan. Orang-orang besar itu ditempa, diukir dan dipersiapkan oleh pendidikan yang baik. Salah satunya adalah tersedianya kesediaan untuk senantiasa menyemangati dengan cinta. Menggerakkan jiwa mereka untuk melakukan kerja besar yang bermakna. Bukan menyibukkan diri dengan kekurangan." (Hal 57, Positive Parenting) ↗
Tell you what." I closed the blade with a satisfying snick. "Remember that time you tried to kill me because I wouldn't open a gate to hell?" "The memory's a bit fuzzy..." I opened the knife again. "Yes, now that you mention it, I do recall something like that happening, although my motivation was certainly never to kill you. Can't you view it as me inspiring you to figure out how to use the Paths? I didn't actually want you to die. ↗
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians ↗
