Marija Simić

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“Human societies train people to "keep a stiff upper lip" and to "be strong" by which they mean the person should endure negative emotions. This is bad advice. Several branches of science have been studying human thriving. The results, when compiled, point to the fact that people thrive when they feel emotionally good and suffer when they do not.”
― Jeanine Joy, Ph.D.

“... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.”
― Agatha Christie, Third Girl

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
― Sinclair Lewis