Quotes - Seno (myseno) (Indonesia) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

tags: flaws, individuality, inspirational

1808 likes

#2

“The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
― Timothy Mo

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#3

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1567 likes

#4

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

1294 likes

#5

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

1941 likes

#6

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

tags: jamaica-kincaid, lucy

1630 likes

#7

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books

3667 likes

#8

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

1831 likes

#9

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

tags: education, experience, wisdom

3192 likes

#10

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

4768 likes

#11

“Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
― Hugh Lofting

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#12