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“Tidak semua orang merasa bahagia kalau mimpinya menjadi kenyataan."

"Easy, difficult--you can make it whatever you want, depending on your state of mind. There's no point in moving to the land of mosquitoes because you're sick of the land of fleas."

"Eyes blinded by worldly passions cannot see the true nature of reality."

"As the autumn's dew
that lies a moment on the tips
of a seeding grass,
so do I know that I too must
fade and be gone from this brief world."

“…mereka semua seharusnya berseru menyemangatinya, termasuk ayah dan ibunya. "Bagus, Gregor," begitu seharusnya mereka berseru, "terus lakukan seperti itu, pegang kuat-kuat kuncinya!" Dan dengan pemikiran bahwa mereka semua mengikuti jerih payahnya dengan tegang, ia menggigit anak kunci itu sekuat tenaga, tak memedulikan rasa sakit yang ia timbulkan.”

Gregor sedang mengkhayal.

“Pertimbangan yang berasal dari pikiran jernih dan ketenangan jauh lebih baik daripada kesimpulan yang diambil di tengah keputusasaan.”

“Sindrom burnout pada dasarnya terjadi saat seseorang yang berdedikasi melakukan sesuatu tidak mendapat hasil yang dibayangkan. Lalu, orang itu mulai mempertanyakan apakah hal yang dilakukannya sia-sia belaka.”

“Bertahan hidup sendirian itu berarti meninggal
sendirian juga, kan?"

"We owe our humble gratitude to all practitioners of the arts, for they mellow the harshness of our human world and enrich the human heart."

“Semuanya hanya kebetulan. Semua yang terjadi hanya akumulasi dari berbagai kebetulan. Meskipun begitu, dibutuhkan kecerdasan yang luar biasa unggul untuk menenun semua kebetulan itu dengan terampil supaya bisa menjadi satu jalinan plot yang utuh.”

"Anda orang yang mengerikan. Kenapa bisa-bisanya pemikiran yang semengerikan itu bersemayam di otak Anda?”

KANT. 👌🏼

Lumayan panjang ya pembahasan soal Hume.

Yunani gabung sama romawi, mesir, babylonia, syria, dan persia. Filsafat jadi punya aliran baru, namanya helenisme.

Filsafat alam. Ternyata awalnya, kebijaksanaan itu didapat dari melihat cara kerja alam.

“Tidak melakukan apa-apa karena tidak menemukan hal yang ingin kau lakukan adalah kelakuan seekor monyet.”

“Meninggal itu artinya kita berpisah dengan orang yang kita sayangi, ya?” -p.222

This scene. 🥲🧘🏼‍♀️

“Lo tumbuh jadi manusia hebat, tanpa bokap.”
“Gue cuma nggak tahan miskin.”
“Itu gue setuju sih, siapa yang tahan.”

Macam-macam kecocokan. 😆

Oke, jadi tokoh utamanya penggemar berat Natsume Soseki. 🫡🙏🏼

“What am I looking for? What am I looking for? A new way to live from now on, perhaps?”

“I’m not useless. Perhaps my problem all along was not being in the right environtment.” Kalau merasa gagal, kamu mungkin lagi hidup di dunia yang bukan bidangmu.

“The end of the race is just a temporary marker without much significance. It's the same with our lives. Just because there's an end doesn't mean existence has meaning.”

“I agree with Patty. I think you’re wrong.”
“…”
“What’s the matter, Charlie Brown?”
“I just can’t get used to being wrong!”

“Somebody’s at the door. I wonder who it can be.”
“Oh, it’s you Charlie Brown. I thought it was somebody important.”

“Yes, Sir! Abraham Lincoln was a great man! Would you like to have been Abraham Lincoln?”

“I doubt it. I have a hard enough time being just plain Charlie Brown.”

“I’m struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up your time and energy. If you don't get that sort of system set by a certain age, you'll lack focus and your life will be out of balance.”

“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think
you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.“

“That’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface.”

“Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.”