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WhiskeyScotch

“Kerana kutahu
dendam hanyalah
marah yang sekejap
direndamkan

Tetapi akan membunuhku
dengan diam
dan perlahan”

― Marsli N.O, Kumpulan Puisi: Mencari Nur

WhiskeyScotch

“Kegagalan kita untuk memaafkan, kesediaan kita untuk mengakui dendam, adalah penerimaan tentang batas. Setelah itu adalah doa. Pada akhirnya kita akan tahu bahwa kita bukan hakim yang terakhir... Di ujung sana, Tuhan lebih tahu.”


― Goenawan Mohamad, Catatan Pinggir 1

WhiskeyScotch

“Revolusi Perancis, mendudukkan harga manusia pada tempatnya yang tepat. Dengan hanya memandang manusia pada satu sisi, sisi penderitaan semata, orang akan kehilangan sisinya yang lain. Dari sisi penderitaan saja, yang datang pada kita hanya dendam, dendam semata...”

― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Child of All Nations

seribulan

Who, being loved, is poor?– Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

seribulan

Most people are nice when you finally see them.– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

seribulan

When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.– Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

bianglala

"I don’t believe in closure. What does it really mean? Does it mean the closing of a door, the locking up of memories, the refusal to allow a flow of consciousness that may involve some measure of grief?

On My Own : DIANE REHM

bianglala

"Beautiful means ‘full of beauty.’ Beautiful is not about how you look on the outside, beautiful is about what you’re made of. Beautiful people spend time discovering what their idea of beauty on this earth is. They know themselves well enough to know what they love, and they love themselves enough to fill up with a little of their particular kind of beauty each day."

Love Warrior : GLENNON DOYLE MELTON

bianglala

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings : MAYA ANGELOU

bianglala

"It cannot be doubted that each of us can only see part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete."

When Breath Becomes Air : PAUL KALANITHI

bianglala

"Human beings need loyalty. It does not necessarily produce happiness, and can even be painful, but we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting, capricious, and insatiable."

Being Mortal : ATUL GAWANDE

bianglala

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it."

Thinking, Fast And Slow : DANIEL KAHNEMAN

bianglala

"When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another."

What I Know for Sure : OPRAH WINFREY

bianglala

"Wherever you fly, you’ll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don’t. Because, sometimes, you won’t. I’m sorry to say so but, sadly, it’s true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you."

Oh! The Places You'll Go : DR SEUSS

bianglala

"It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way."

Wild : CHERYL STRAYED

bianglala

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

All the Light We Cannot See : ANTHONY DERR

bianglala

"I was told love should be unconditional. That's the rule, everyone says so. But if love has no boundaries, no limits, no conditions, why should anyone try to do the right thing ever? If I know I am loved no matter what, where is the challenge?"

Gone Girl : GILLIAN FLYNN

bianglala

"Autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."

Outliers : MALCOLM GLADWELL

bianglala

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

Fight Club : CHUCK PALAHNIUK

bianglala

"People are less quick to applaud you as you grow older. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there."

I Was Told There'd Be Cake : SLOANE CROSLEY