Robertina

“Listen to that lovely music,   Better than mythology!   Your gods, elderly and antique,   Give them up, they’re now passé.   Those old tales have lost all meaning,   We aim at a higher goal:   From the soul must come the feeling   That can move another’s soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two

“As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause - for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are invented, but we don't realize that they don't correspond to reality. What is success? It is what one group decided is a good thing. Another group will decide the same thing is bad.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

“Prođimo redom sve vrste zadovoljstava što ih takvo putovanje pruža. Putuješ li sa ženom?
- Da.
- Znači, jedno zadovoljstvo manje.
Ostaju: krajobrazí, kazališta, muzeji i obiteljski posjeti.”
― Ephraim Kishon, Seasick Whale: An Israeli Abroad