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“Why is it,” Jonathan puzzled, “that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he’d just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“اری اری
زندگی زیباست
زندگی اتشگهی
دیرنده پابرجاست
گر بیفروزیش
رقص شعله اش
در هر کران
پیداست
ورنه خاموشست و
خاموشی گناه ماست”
― سیاووش کسرایی / Siavosh Kasraii

“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“ای کاش که جای آرمیدن بودی
یا این ره دور را رسیدن بودی
کاش از پی صد هزار سال از دل خاک
چون سبزه امید بر دمیدن بودی”
― خیام

“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“The partner truly best suited to us is not the one who miraculously happens to share every taste, but the one who can negotiate differences in taste with intelligence and grace.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Love begins with the experience of being understood in highly supportive and uncommon ways. They grasp the lonely parts of us; we don’t have to explain why we find a particular joke so funny; we have the same people; we both want to try that rather specialised sexual scenario.
It cannot continue. When we run up against the reasonable limits of our lovers’ capacities for understanding, we mustn’t blame them for dereliction. They were not tragically inept. They couldn’t fully fathom who we were – and we could do no better. Which is normal. No one properly gets, or can fully sympathize with, anyone else.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We must go for walks out of doors, so that the mind can be strengthened and invigorated by a clear sky and plenty of fresh air. At times it will acquire fresh energy from a journey by carriage and a change of scene, or from socializing and drinking freely. Occasionally we should even come to the point of intoxication, sinking into drink but not being totally flooded by it; for it does wash away cares, and stirs the mind to its depths, and heals sorrow just as it heals certain diseases.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

“کاش می شد از این بیماری علاج ناپذیر «کسی بودن» شفا یافت و به چشم نیامد. و یا نیاز به این رؤیت نداشت، نیاز به انعکاس- به تکثیر- به انتشار- انتشارِ خود”
― گلی ترقی, جایی دیگر

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“از خون جوانان وطن لاله دمیده
از ماتم سرو قدشان، سرو خمیده
در سایه گل بلبل از این غصه خزیده
گل نیز چو من در غمشان جامه دریده
چه كجرفتاری ای چرخ ،
چه بد كرداری ای چرخ
سر كین داری ای چرخ
نه دین داری ،
نه آیین داری ای چرخ
از اشك همه روی زمین زیر و زبر كن
مشتی گرت از خاك وطن هست بسر كن
غیرت كن و اندیشه ایام بتر كن
اندر جلو تیر عدو، سینه سپر كن
چه كجرفتاری ای چرخ ،
چه بد كرداری ای چرخ
سر كین داری ای چرخ
نه دین داری ،
نه آیین داری ای چرخ
از دست عدو ناله ی من از سر درد است
اندیشه هر آنكس كند از مرگ، نه مرد است
جان بازی عشاق، نه چون بازی نرد است
مردی اگرت هست، كنون وقت نبرد است
چه كجرفتاری ای چرخ،
چه بد كرداری ای چرخ
سر كین داری ای چرخ
نه دین داری ،
نه آیین داری ای چرخ”
― عارف قزوینی

“If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death