Simona Prokić

“As you can easily imagine we often ask ourselves
here despairingly: "What, oh, what is the use of the
war? Why can't people live peacefully together? Why all this destruction?"
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world. Oh, why are people so crazy?”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Pre svega je naučio veštinu slušanja; naučio je da sluša smirena srca i strpljive, otvorene duše, bez strasti, bez želje, bez donošenja suda i razmišljanja.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddartha

“A thought:
We miss so much here, so very much and for so long now: I miss it too, just as you do. I'm not talking of outward things, for we are looked after in that way; no, I mean the inward things. Like you, I long for freedom and fresh air, but I believe now that we have ample compensation for our privations. I realized this quite suddenly when I sat in front of the window this morning. I mean inward compensation. When I looked outside right into the depth of the Nature and God, then I was happy, really happy.
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Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower