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  • #1
    “Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #2
    “When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #3
    “If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #4
    “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #5
    Genki Kawamura
    “As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy.”
    Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

  • #6
    Genki Kawamura
    “I wonder why people always expect things from others that they themselves can’t or won’t do.”
    Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

  • #7
    Genki Kawamura
    “I scooped the cat up and snuggled him against my chest for comfort. He was warm and soft, a smooth fluffy ball of fur in my arms. I'd cuddled up with the little guy countless times over the years without thinking much about it, but now, for the first time ever, it occurred to me that maybe this little act of comfort was what life was all about.”
    Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

  • #8
    Genki Kawamura
    “To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things... and to laugh.”
    Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

  • #9
    Genki Kawamura
    “No one knows exactly how long they’re going to live. So there’s really no such thing as too late or too soon.”
    Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

  • #10
    Genki Kawamura
    “I'd heard somewhere that people forget things in order to build new memories. You have to forget things in order to move on in life.”
    Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

  • #11
    Genki Kawamura
    “«Per ottenere qualcosa, bisogna sacrificarne un’altra».
    Secondo mamma era ovvio, eppure le persone cercavano sempre di ottenere qualcosa senza sacrificare un bel niente. Quello però si chiama furto, quando qualcuno ci guadagna e qualcun altro ci perde. Si tratta di una felicità costruita sull’infelicità altrui. Sono le leggi che regolano il mondo, mamma ne parlava spesso.”
    Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

  • #12
    Cesare Pavese
    “Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via. Un paese vuol dire non essere soli, sapere che nella gente, nelle piante, nella terra c'è qualcosa di tuo, che anche quando non ci sei resta ad aspettarti.”
    Cesare Pavese, La luna e i falò

  • #13
    Cesare Pavese
    “La gente nasce tutta uguale, e sono solamente gli altri che trattandoti male ti guastano il sangue.”
    Cesare Pavese, La luna e i falò (Edizione Illustrata): Nel cuore dei racconti immortali di Cesare Pavese

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “Non serve a niente rifugiarsi nei sogni e dimenticarsi di vivere.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “Esistono molti tipi di coraggio. Affrontare i nemici richiede notevole ardimento. Ma altrettanto ne occorre per affrontare gli amici.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    J.K. Rowling
    “In fin dei conti, per una mente ben organizzata, la morte non è che una nuova, grande avventura.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #18
    Italo Calvino
    “L'umano arriva dove arriva l'amore, non ha confini se non quelli che gli diamo.”
    Italo Calvino, La giornata d'uno scrutatore

  • #19
    Italo Svevo
    “Adesso che son qui, ad analizzarmi, sono colto da un dubbio: che io forse abbia amato tanto la sigaretta per poter riversare su di essa la colpa della mia incapacità?”
    Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno

  • #20
    Italo Svevo
    “é un modo comodo di vivere quello di credersi grande di una grandezza latente.”
    Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

  • #21
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #22
    J.K. Rowling
    “Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #25
    J.K. Rowling
    “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #26
    J.K. Rowling
    “What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: fear

  • #27
    J.K. Rowling
    “Black’s gaunt face broke into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment, he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry’s parents’ wedding.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #28
    Richard Bach
    “We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
    Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  • #29
    Richard Bach
    “Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
    Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  • #30
    Richard Bach
    “Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”
    Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull



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