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Awindlike

“Meski semua hal itu adalah kenangan menyakitkan, kita baru merasa kehilangan setelah sesuatu itu telah benar-benar pergi, tidak akan mungkin kembali lagi.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

Awindlike

“Guru Bushi selalu bilang, "Ingat, Bujang. Jika kau tidak membunuh mereka lebih dulu, maka mereka akan membunuhmu lebih awal. Pertempuran adalah pertempuran. Tidak ada ampun. Jangan ragu walau sehelai benang.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

Awindlike

“Sejatinya, dalam hidup ini, kita tidak pernah berusaha mengalahkan orang lain, dan itu sama sekali tidak perlu. Kita cukup mengalahkan diri sendiri. Egoisme. Ketidakpedulian. Ambisi. Rasa takut. Pertanyaaan. Keraguan. Sekali kau bisa menang dalam pertempuran itu, maka pertempuran lainnya akan mudah saja.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

Awindlike

“Aku melawan kakakku; kakakku dan aku melawan sepupuku; sepupu-sepupuku, saudara-saudaraku melawan orang asing. Pepatah ini adalah simbol kesetiaan. Artinya, keluarga adalah segalanya. Mereka boleh jadi bertengkar dengan saudara sendiri, tidak sependapat dengan sepupu sendiri. Tapi ketika datang orang asing, musuh, mereka akan bersatu padu, melupakan semua perbedaan. Kesetiaan adalah segalanya.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

Awindlike

“Tuanku Imam benar. Akan selalu ada hari-hari menyakitkan dan kita tidak tahu kapan hari itu menghantam kita. Tapi akan selalu ada hari-hari berikutnya, memulai bab yang baru bersama matahari terbit.”
― Tere Liye, Pulang

Awindlike

“Ada banyak hal-hal hebat yang tampil sederhana. Bahkan sepertinya, banyak momen berharga dalam hidup datang dari hal-hal kecil yang luput kita perhatikan. Karena kita terlalu sibuk mengurus sebaliknya.”
― Tere Liye, Tentang Kamu

Awindlike

“Hati manusia persis seperti lautan, penuh misteri. Kita tidak pernah tahu kejadian menyakitkan apa yang telah dilewati seseorang.”
― Tere Liye, Tentang Kamu

Awindlike

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“I like myself better when I'm with you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

seribulan

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

D Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Awindlike

“Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

Awindlike

“there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie