Iulia Sabou

“Happy is not the right word. This world is not a place where we can be happy. It wasn’t created for man’s happiness, though many believe this is the reason of our existence. I think we are here to fight, so that good and evil can clash within us, and good may prevail, thus enriching us spiritually. It’s difficult to say whether we are happy or not: it doesn’t depend on us… There are times when one regrets being born, but life also gives us surprising things that, alone, are worth living. The issue of happiness doesn’t exist for me: happiness as such doesn’t exist.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“Deschideți ochii și vedeți cu ei tot ce puteți înainte să se închidă pe vecie .”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“În casa aceasta ,zeița noastră a orezului este bunica ta!Ea este păstrătoarea visurilor !Uită-te cu atenție și ai s-o vezi cum stă pe tronul ei de lemn ,ținându-ne toate speranțele si visurile ,mari și mici,ale tale și ale mele ,în brațele ei puternice .Anii nu-i scad puterea !”
― Rani Manicka, The Rice Mother

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring