In relationship, some people are in a hurry to get somewhere else, to become something else; as if they need to become something else in order to be valued in the relationship they are fleeing to become something else. But these people should know that no achievement can win love.
— Levant & Pollack —from the textbook A New Psychology of Men
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On Saved Time

  • Jesse: You know what drives me crazy?
  • Céline: What?
  • Jesse: It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work.
  • Céline: Yeah.
  • Jesse: Right, I mean, you never hear somebody say, "Well, you know, with, uh, the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out." I mean, you never hear that
  • (Taken from the movie Before Sunrise)
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Jika kebetulan terjadi terlalu banyak, apakah kamu percaya bahwa itu tidak bermakna?
— Ayu Utami, dalam Manjali dan Cakrabirawa
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…
— Albert Einstein