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  • #1
    Pablo Neruda
    “Sonnet XVII

    I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
    or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
    I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

    I love you as the plant that never blooms
    but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
    thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
    risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

    I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
    I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
    so I love you because I know no other way than this:

    where I does not exist, nor you,
    so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
    so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #2
    Sanai
    “Unable to perceive the shape of You,
    I find You all around me.
    Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
    It humbles my heart,
    For You are everywhere.”
    Hakim Sanai

  • #3
    Paulo Coelho
    “Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

  • #4
    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #5
    “I admit,
    I was afraid
    to love.
    Not just love,
    but to love her.
    For she was a stunning
    mystery. She carried things
    deep inside her that no one
    has yet to understand,
    and I,
    I was afraid to fail,
    like the others. She was the ocean
    and i was just a boy
    who loved the waves
    but was completely
    terrified to
    swim.”
    Christopher Poindexter

  • #6
    Pablo Neruda
    “so I wait for you like a lonely house
    till you will see me again and live in me.
    Till then my windows ache.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #7
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “Till this moment I never knew myself.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #9
    Hafez
    “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
    Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.
    Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
    Hafez

  • #10
    Hafez
    “How
    Did the rose
    Ever open its heart
    And give to this world
    All its
    Beauty?
    It felt the encouragement of light
    Against its Being.
    Otherwise,
    We all remain
    Too
    Frightened”
    Hafez

  • #11
    Brené Brown
    “Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to wake up in the morning and think, ‘No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.’ It’s going to bed at night thinking, ‘Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
    Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

  • #12
    Brené Brown
    “I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.”
    Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

  • #13
    نزار قباني
    “In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    And think of you. Had I told the sea
    What I felt for you,
    It would have left its shores,
    Its shells,
    Its fish,
    And followed me.”
    Nizar Qabbani

  • #14
    نزار قباني
    “أدمنت احزاني
    فصرت اخاف ان لا احزنا
    I got addicted to my sorrows,
    Until I have gotten scared of not being sorrowed.

    وطعنت آلافا من المرات
    حتى صار يوجعني بان لا اطعنا
    And I was stabbed thousands of times,
    Until it felt painful not to be stabbed.

    ولعنت في كل اللغات
    حتى صار يقلقني بان لا العنا
    And I was cursed in all the languages,
    Until I started being nervous of not being cursed.

    ولقد تشابهت كل البلاد
    فلا ارى نفسي هناك، ولا ارى نفسي هنا
    And all the countries seemed the same,
    That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.”
    Nizar Qabbani

  • #15
    “I wish I wrote the way I thought
    Obsessively
    Incessantly
    With maddening hunger
    I’d write to the point of suffocation
    I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns
    Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing
    And I’d write about you
    a lot more
    than I should”
    Benedict Smith

  • #16
    Mary Oliver
    “If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? Even then? Since we’re bound to be something, why not together.”
    Mary Oliver, West Wind

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus

  • #20
    Albert Camus
    “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

    And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
    Albert Camus

  • #21
    Mary Oliver
    “there was a new voice
    which you slowly
    recognized as your own,
    that kept you company
    as you strode deeper and deeper
    into the world,
    determined to do
    the only thing you could do --
    determined to save
    the only life you could save.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #22
    Mary Oliver
    “That time
    I thought I could not
    go any closer to grief
    without dying

    I went closer,
    and I did not die.
    Surely God
    had his hand in this,

    as well as friends.
    Still, I was bent,
    and my laughter,
    as the poet said,

    was nowhere to be found.
    Then said my friend Daniel,
    (brave even among lions),
    “It’s not the weight you carry

    but how you carry it -
    books, bricks, grief -
    it’s all in the way
    you embrace it, balance it, carry it

    when you cannot, and would not,
    put it down.”
    So I went practicing.
    Have you noticed?

    Have you heard
    the laughter
    that comes, now and again,
    out of my startled mouth?

    How I linger
    to admire, admire, admire
    the things of this world
    that are kind, and maybe

    also troubled -
    roses in the wind,
    the sea geese on the steep waves,
    a love
    to which there is no reply?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
    Rumi

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Your body is away from me,
    but there is a window open
    from my heart to yours.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy ”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

  • #26
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy, overwhelming despair - dreading everything. Dreading life. Empty inside, to the point of numbness. It's like there's something already dead inside. My whole being has been pulling back into that void for months.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

  • #27
    Kay Redfield Jamison
    “Look to the living, love them, and hold on.”
    Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide



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