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“Bem prea mult, fumam prea mult, cheltuim prea nesăbuit, radem prea puţin, conducem prea repede, ne enervam prea tare, ne culcam prea târziu, ne sculam prea obosiţi, citim prea puţin, ne uitam prea mult la televizor si ne rugam prea rar.

Ne-am multiplicat averile, dar ne-am redus valorile.

Vorbim prea mult, iubim prea rar si uram prea des. Am învăţat cum sa ne câştigam existenta, dar nu cum sa ne facem o viata.

Am adăugat ani vieţii si nu viata anilor.”
― Octavian Paler

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Luxury is infantilization.”
― Matthew Edward Hall