Hien > Hien's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“If you can’t understand it without an explaination, you can’t understand it with an explaination.”
― Haruki Murakami

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Tôi, 24 tuổi, thức dậy chỉ thấy hư vô. Không thể mất mát trong hư vô.
Không người con gái nào để thương yêu
Không có người đàn ông nào để trọng
Không có kẻ thù nào để ác
Không có tội lỗi nào để phạm
Không có cả một nỗi buồn để khóc
Cũng chẳng có chiến lũy nào để chết
Chúng ta làm gì cho hết buổi chiều nay?”
― Lưu Quang Vũ

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“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

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“There's a big difference between trying to do something and actually doing it. We often say we're trying to do something-losing weight, getting more exercise, finding a job. But the truth is, we're either doing it or not doing it.”
― Tina Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”
― Glenn Gould

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

“Phố ta

(Lưu Quang Vũ)

Phố của ta
Những cây táo nở hoa
Mùa thu đấy
Thân cây đang tróc vỏ
Con đường lát đá
Nghiêng nghiêng trong sương chiều

Năm nay cà chua chín sớm
Trên quầy hàng đỏ hồng
Chị thợ may đi lấy chồng
Chị thợ may goá bụa
Năm nay tôi mặc đồ đen.

Bác đưa thư, có thư ai đấy?
Bác đưa thư kéo chuông
Ti-gôn hoa nhỏ
Rụng đầy trước hiên.

Riêng bác thợ mộc già buồn bã
Thở khói thuốc lên trời
Anh thợ điện trên mái nhà mắc dây
Bà giáo về hưu ngồi dịch sách
Dậy cậu con tiếng Pháp
Suốt ngày chào: bông-dua

Phố của ta
Phố nghèo của ta
Những giọt nước sa
Trên cành thánh thót
Lũ trẻ lên gác thượng
Thổi bay cao bao bong bóng xà phòng.

Em chờ anh trước cổng
Con chim sẻ của anh
Con chim sẻ tóc xù
Con chim sẻ của phố ta
Đừng buồn nữa nhá
Bác thợ mộc nói sai rồi
Nếu cuộc đời này toàn chuyện xấu xa
Tại sao cây táo lại nở hoa
Sao rãnh nước trong veo đến thế?
Con chim sẻ tóc xù ơi
Bác thợ mộc nói sai rồi.”
― Lưu Quang Vũ, Thơ tình

“Ngày tháng thoi đưa, con đã cao hơn mẹ
Chẳng hồn nhiên khi lòng con biết nghĩ
Áo dài hơn, tuổi mẹ cũng nhiều hơn
Dẫu vá vai, màu bạc, chỉ sờn
Nhưng trong áo ấm đường khâu mẹ vá
Yêu mẹ nhiều nên áo cũ con thương”
― Lưu Quang Vũ, Gió và tình yêu thổi trên đất nước tôi

“tôi gục xuống tay em
trong cái đêm lặng lẽ nầy
giữa run rẩy những hàng cây
giữa bóng tối và gập ghềnh bãi đá
em mang gì cho tôi?
một bao thuốc lá
một bài thơ về nước Ả Rập bại trận
một bức tranh cổ xưa trong viện bảo tàng”
― Lưu Quang Vũ, Gió và tình yêu thổi trên đất nước tôi

“tôi mua bao thuốc lá
ngồi hút mà buồn thiu
cuộc đời chẳng ra làm sao
có đang cho mình đau đớn?
em yêu hay không yêu
quan trọng gì mà phải khổ?”
― Lưu Quang Vũ, Gió và tình yêu thổi trên đất nước tôi

“The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Run. Eat. Drink. Eat more. Don't throw up. Instead, take a piss. Then take a crap. Wipe your butt. Make a phone call. Open a door. Rid your bik. Ride in a car. Ride in a subway. Talk. Talk to people. Read. Read maps. Make maps. Make art. Talk about your art. Sell your art. Take a test. Get into a school. Celebrate. HAve a party. Write a thank-you note to someone. Hug your mom. Kiss your dad. Kiss your little sister. Make out with Noelle. Make out with her more. Touch her. HOld her hand. Take her out somewhere. Meet her friends. Run down a street with her. Take her on a picnic. Eat with her. See a movie with her. See a move with Aaron. Heck, see a movie with Nia, once you're cool with her. Get cool with more people.. Drink coffee in little coffee-drinking places. Tell people your story. Volunteer. Go back to Six North. Walk in as a volunteer and say hi to everyone who waited on you as a patient. Help people. Help people like Bobby. Get people books and music that they want when they're in there. Help people like Muqtada. Show them how to draw. Draw more. Try drawing a landscape. Try drawing a person. Try drawing a naked person. Try drawing Noelle naked. Travel. Fly. Swim. Meet. Love. Dance. Win. Smile. Laugh. Hold. Walk. Skip. Okay, it's gay, whatever, skip.
Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserved them because you chose them. You could have left the all behind but you chose to stay here.
So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
Live.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove