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“When you make decisions, you deal with consequences. Don't expect anything in return.”
― Winna Efendi, Remember When

“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.”
― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

“Demi tercapainya cita-cita kita, para pemimpin politik tidak boleh lupa bahwa mereka berasal dari rakyat, bukan berada di atas rakyat.”
― Cindy Adams, Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

“Begini. Sebuah otobiografi tidak ada nilainya, kecuali jika si penulis merasa kehidupannya tidak berguna. Kalau dia memganggap dirinya orang besar, karyanya akan menjadi subjektif. Tidak objektif. Otobiografiku hanya mungkin jika ada keseimbangan antara keduanya. Sekian banyak yang baik-baik supaya dapat mengurangi egoku dan sekian banyak yang jelek-jelek sehingga orang mau membeli buku itu. Kalau dimasukkan yang baik-baik saja, orang akan menyebutku egois, karena memuji diri sendiri. Sebaliknya memasukkan yang jelek-jelek saja akan menimbulkan suasana mental yang buruk bagi rakyatku sendiri. Hanya setelah mati dunia ini dapat menimbang dengan jujur, apakah Sukarno manusia yang baik ataukah manusia yang buruk? Hanya di saat itulah dia baru dapat diadili.”
― Cindy Adams, Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

“Engkau tahu apa artinya Indonesia? Indonesia adalah pohon yang kuat dan indah itu. Indinesia adalah langit yangbiru dan terang itu. Indonesia adalah mega putih yang bergerak pelan itu. Ia adalah udara yang hangat.

Saudara-saudaraku yang tercinta, laut yang menderu-deru memukul-mukul ke pantai di waktu senja, bagiku adalah jiwanya Indonesia yang bergolak dalam gemuruhnya gelombang samudera. Bila kudengar anak-anak tertawa, aku mendengar Indinesia. Bila aku menghirup untaian bunga, aku menghirup Indonesia. Inilah arti tanah air kita bagiku.”
― Cindy Adams, Bung Karno: Penyambung Lidah Rakyat Indonesia

“Tak pernah aku mengadili tanpa tahu duduk perkara.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
― John C. Maxwell

“The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.
Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or
whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?
After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation
comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan.”
― Goenawan Mohamad

“Hidup penuh dengan ketidakpastian, tetapi perpindahan adalah salah satu hal yang pasti. Kalau pindah diidentikkan dengan kepergian, maka kesedihan menjadi sesuatu yang mengikutinya..... Padahal, untuk melakukan pencapaian lebih, kita tak bisa hanya bertahan di tempat yang sama. Tidak ada kehidupan lebih baik yang bisa didapatkan tanpa melakukan perpindahan.

Gue jadi berpikir, ternyata untuk mendapatkan sesuatu yang lebih baik, gue gak perlu menjadi manusia super. Gue hanya perlu menjadi manusia setengah salmon: berani pindah.”
― Raditya Dika, Manusia Setengah Salmon

“Lebih jauh lagi, gue gak percaya pada kebetulan, gue percaya pada pertemuan yang dirancang diam-diam. Masing-masing dari kita punya garis kehidupan yang telah digambarkan. Dan masing-masing dari kita, kalau diizinkan, akan saling bersinggungan.”
― Raditya Dika, Marmut Merah Jambu

“You can't always get what you want, but, if you try, sometimes you just might find you get what you need .”
― Raditya Dika, Manusia Setengah Salmon

“Bagi gue, rumah adalah dia. Karena dia adalah tempat gue pulang. Karena, orang terbaik buat kita itu seperti rumah yang sempurna. Sesuatu yang bisa melindungi kita dari gelap, hujan, dan menawarkan kenyamanan.”
― Raditya Dika, Manusia Setengah Salmon

“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.”
― Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

“There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.”
― Jack Canfield

“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world”
― Soekarno

“When a man can listen to a woman's feelings without getting angry and frustrated, he gives her a wonderful gift.
He makes it safe for her to express herself.
The more she is able to express herself, the more she feels heard and understood, and the more she is able to give a man the loving trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, approval, and encouragement that he needs.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

“Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love .
The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love .”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus