Jakub R

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“I byłbym chciał usiąść tam i zostać cały dzień, czytając i słuchając dzwonów; bo było tak ładnie i spokojnie, że można by rzec, iż zegar, bijąc godzinę, nie przerywa spokoju dnia, ale że go uwalnia od jego zawartości, i że dzwonnica - niedbale i starannie, jak ktoś niemający nic innego do roboty – przycisnęła w danym momencie jedynie pełnię ciszy, aby z niej wycisnąć i upuścić parę kropelek złota, które w niej powoli i nieznacznie zebrało gorąco.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha