Hardiansyah

“Dalam perjalanannya dengan kuda berlangsung berhari-hari, setelah rehat, beliau membaca buku-buku ilmiah yang dibawanya. Membaca, bergaul dengan ahli-ahli ilmu pengetahuan adalah matlamat penting dalam program hidup Sultan Salahuddin al-Ayubi.”
― Syed Hussein Alatas, Cita Sempurna Warisan Sejarah

“jangan terpaku pada kekurangan kita, tapi ada baiknya mengasah keunggulan yang kita miliki”
― Nana Sitompul, Diari Hara: Catatan Harian Cowok Cupu

“J'aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, because he has no real effect in the world. But the tradesman must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one’s failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. His well-founded pride is far from the gratuitous “self-esteem” that educators would impart to students, as though by magic.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work