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#1

“Volela sam da volim vise nego sto je uobicajeno.
Zato moji snovi nisu imali kuda da odu.
Pa sam se do zemlje savila.
Ostavite nocu prozore otvorene.
Ostavite ih da snovi mogu slobodno da odu
da se pretvore u vetar, pero, oblak, prah...
Da vas nikada ne zabole..”
― Milena Pavlović Barili

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#2

“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.”
― Serbian Proverb

tags: inspirational, science

131 likes

#3

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

3854 likes

#4

“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

76 likes

#5

“In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness

198 likes

#6

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

tags: friendship, life, self-love, women

1318 likes

#7

“The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

299 likes

#8

“Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

tags: pity, suffering, virgin-mary, woman

67 likes

#9

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

6492 likes

#10

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

tags: memory, nostalgia, vocabulary

1639 likes

#11

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1305 likes

#12

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

2082 likes

#13

“Jednom mi je u rano jutro, iguman nikšićkog manastira, stari Koprivica, nazdravio rečima: ''Dabogda se cijeli život penjao uz brdo i da Bog da nikad na vrh ne izađeš.''
U prvom trenu beh zatečen, kao da čuh kletvu, a onda shvatih plemenitost želje. Sa vrha se nema kud više, može samo nadole.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

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#14

“Ovo je zemlja gde se u svemu kasni. Samo se umire pre vremena.”
― Žarko Laušević, Godina prođe, dan nikad

tags: lausevic

27 likes

#15

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135500 likes

#16

“Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself”
― Plato

30 likes

#17

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

2131 likes

#18

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day

2320 likes

#19

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

399 likes

#20

“I know not what to do, my mind is divided”
― sappho

94 likes

#21

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

3045 likes

#22

“But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.”
― Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti

tags: darkness-and-light, inner-being, inspirational, poetry-quotes

54 likes

#23

“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― Sappho, The Art of Loving Women

522 likes

#24

“someone will remember us
I say
even in another time”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

957 likes

#25

“You came and I was longing for you.
You cooled a heart that burned with desire.”
― Sappho

222 likes

#26

“According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.”
― Plato, The Symposium

1510 likes

#27

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

tags: creativity, inspiration, philosophy, vitality

502 likes

#28

“My self-confidence comes from the fact that I have discovered my own dimensions. It does not behoove me to make myself smaller than I am.”
― Edith Södergran

45 likes

#29

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
― Euripides

50 likes

#30

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
― Euripides

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