💬 Quotes

"Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's life was worth a pocket watch."

"They took me in my nightgown. I didn't even have time to put on my shoes. I was drawing. I was always drawing."

"I realized that if I died, I would be nothing but a statistic. I had to live. I had to be a witness."

"You see, Lina, you are like a stone. You are hard and unyielding. You must learn to be like the reed, to bend with the wind, or you will break."

"Good people, bad people. I don't know which is which anymore. The world is changing, Lina. Everything we knew is being erased."

"I hope you don't lose your heart, even after everything they've done to us. That is the only way we win."

"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, neither thunderstorms nor blizzards nor storms of petals; it is we who create the divisions."

"There are only two ways to life: one is the regular, direct and healthy way, and the other is the unwholesome way that leads to genius—through death and disease."

"Everything is result. Everything is the consequence of what has gone before. Everything is the fruit of the past."

"Curiosity is the source of all knowledge, and it is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of it is a firm conviction."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

"I felt my teacher's hand across mine, and the word 'water' was spelled into my palm. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."

"To keep my heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age."

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

"Marriage is a relationship in which the individual is sacrificed to a relationship, and yet the relationship is for the perfecting of the individual."