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“Sens życia? Babcia ma rację - to życie samo. Te niekończące się zmierzchy, zapach akacji i jaśminu, granie żab, wieczorna zorza, kłusowanie między kopami świeżego siana i jedzenie poziomek ze śmietaną.”
― Bogna Ziembicka

“To, że człowiek ma się kim zajmować, na kogo złościć na przykład albo kogo pogłaskać po policzku, albo z kim pogadać. To jest ważne.”
― Tove Ditlevsen

“I like a rule which regulates emotion. I like an emotion which offsets the rule”
― George Braque

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“Może bym nawet nie pisał do Ciebie o tym wszystkim – ale przed chwilą przez radio nadawano koncert nagrany w BBC przez orkiestrę Filharmonii Narodowej i w programie był Pierwszy Koncert Skrzypcowy Karola Szymanowskiego. Jest to utwór, który zawsze otwiera przede mną słoneczną przepaść miłości. Jest przesączony erotyzmem, ale nie tym erotyzmem, polegającym na chędożeniu bez końca, na włóczeniu się za kobietami, (...) ale erotyzmem wielkich uczuć, wielkich zespoleń, wspaniałego współżycia duchowego, które jest jedyną rzeczą cenną na tej ponurej ziemi. Jest to jasna, nie ponura przestrzeń, gdzie człowiek łączy się z człowiekiem nie ciałem, ale czymś innym – co niektórzy niedokładnie nazywają duchem – jakąś inną struną swojej istoty, lepszą stroną, czymś, co wyrzuca nas poza nas samych, jak wybuch gorącej treści ziemi. Co łączy nas gdzie indziej, w innym świecie, świecie świateł, tonów, muzyki – bezmiernego szczęścia, polegającego na wyjściu poza granice istoty i połączeniu się z inną istotą. Nie jest to ani miłość, ani przyjaźń, a tym bardziej nie perwersja, jest to największe osiągnięcie, na jakie może się zdobyć ludzka natura. Dla uproszczenia tego, co piszę, będę to nazywał 'miłością'. Taką miłość chciałem Ci dać, taką miłość chciałem Ci pokazać, w takie przestrzenie chciałem Cię porwać”
― Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Listy

“One person of integrity can make a difference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Jane, która nie żyje już 31 lat,
nigdy by na to nie
wpadła że napiszę scenariusz o dniach gdy
piliśmy razem
i
że zrobią z tego film
i
że piękna gwiazda filmowa zagra jej
rolę.
Jane powiedziałaby pewnie teraz: „Piękna gwiazda filmowa?
rany boskie!”
Jane, to jest szołbiz, więc śpij, kochanie, bo
choćby nie wiem jak się starali
po prostu nie mogliby znaleźć nikogo dokładnie takiego jak
ty.
i ja
też nie mogę”
― Charles Bukowski

“This process within our brains is a three-step loop. First, there is a cue, a trigger that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and which habit to use. Then there is the routine, which can be physical or mental or emotional. Finally, there is a reward, which helps your brain figure out if this particular loop is worth remembering for the future: THE HABIT LOOP”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“THE FRAMEWORK: • Identify the routine • Experiment with rewards • Isolate the cue • Have a plan”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“Small wins are exactly what they sound like, and are part of how keystone habits create widespread changes. A huge body of research has shown that small wins have enormous power, an influence disproportionate to the accomplishments of the victories themselves. “Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage,” one Cornell professor wrote in 1984. “Once a small win has been accomplished, forces are set in motion that favor another small win.”4.14 Small wins fuel transformative changes by leveraging tiny advantages into patterns that convince people that bigger achievements are within reach.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power Of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“Problemy zaczęły się, kiedy Wiesława, pięćdziesięcioletnia księgowa z Iławy, wybrała ciało Zdzisława zamiast ciała Chrystusa.”
― Agata Romaniuk, Krótko i szczęśliwie. Historie późnych miłości

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“- Byliśmy we dwoje. Razem można wszystko przetrwać - mówi Luba, a Dmytro potwierdza, kiwając głową.”
― Agata Romaniuk, Krótko i szczęśliwie. Historie późnych miłości