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“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Ja sam se, na primer, već gotovo potpuno privikao na sebe, a opet se neprijatno iznenadim svaki put kad stanem pred ogledalo...
Eh...
Strašno je kad ostariš, zaista... No, još je strašnije kad ostariš mlad.”
― Đorđe Balašević, Jedan od onih života

“Znaš, stalo mi je... Ali se uporno ponašam kao da nije. Gradim oko sebe zid do kojeg nitko ne može doći, ali ima jedna caka: Priđi! Reci mi riječ i taj će se zid pokazati kao jedna obična kula od karata koja izgleda moćno dok ne dođe nešto pred čim pada .”
― Đorđe Balašević

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.”
― Hermann Hesse, Gertrude

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
― Katherine Anne Porter