Ondrej Ko

“Death may be knocking on my door, but I’m not getting out of this glorious bath to answer it.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“All in all, I loved Bratislava, and was determined to stay if I could. The city had a vibrancy to it that I’d not experienced elsewhere; a strong sense of its history combined with a passionate determination to free itself of any remaining shackles of the past and forge a new identity. I felt an affinity in that.”
― Christy Morgan, With Love From Bratislava

“the brain registers social pain in the same area of the brain and to the same degree as it does when it registers physical pain. We know from what we mentioned above that life-threatening situations trigger the amygdala and ‘limbic reactions’, and we also know that social pain and emotional pain can also trigger the same reactions to a lesser or greater degree.”
― Rachel Paling, Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain friendly language learning

“take as much care of yourself as you can, and bring back all the news you can, and any old songs and tales you can come by.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring