Oh U

“Aku tidak percaya bentuk Tuhan apa pun, kecuali yang sesuai dengan idealku sendiri. Aku pun tak yakin (pasti malah) tentang ke-tak-ada-annya nasib. Juga tak percaya kita juga. Dewasa ini aku berpendapat bahwa kita adalah pion dari diri kita sendiri sebagai keseluruhan. Kita adalah arsitek nasib kita, tapi kita tak pernah dapat menolaknya. Kita asing, ya kita asing dari ciptaan kita sendiri. Itulah aku kira mengapa kita harus belajar sejarah dan dalam hal ini mengapa aku pesimis.”
― Soe Hok Gie, Catatan Seorang Demonstran

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“I think a person needs to learn from childhood to find himself alone. It means to not be bored when you’re by yourself, because a person who finds himself bored when alone – as it seems to me – is in danger.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn from childhood how to spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky