Liputan6.com, Jakarta Famous writers have shared many wise words that can help us understand life better. These simple quotes and phrases come from well-known authors who wrote books that people still read today. Each writer had their own way of looking at the world, and their words can teach us important lessons about living, loving, and growing as people.
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Life and Growing Up
- You don't need to be perfect to be good.
- Everyone in the world might be scared of each other.
- All great and special things feel lonely sometimes.
- There is no right or wrong, just things people do.
- When children learn adults make mistakes, their world changes forever.
- Growing up can be painful and hard to understand.
- Life is about choosing between good and bad actions.
- The meaning of life is that it ends one day.
- We are all ordinary and special at the same time.
- Life is not fair, and maybe that's okay.
- Don't cry because something ended, smile because it happened.
- Everything is hard before it becomes easy.
- We learn very little from peaceful times.
- Life is a journey, not a place to reach.
- Today might be hard, but tomorrow could be your best day.
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Love and Relationships
- A strong woman with love in her heart cannot be destroyed.
- I have you to look after me, and you have me to look after you.
- When two people meet, they both become new people.
- Try to understand other people, and you will be kind to them.
- Knowing someone well almost always leads to love.
- We loved with a love that was bigger than love.
- Love is like turning a knife inside yourself.
- To be in love means to go beyond yourself.
- Love is the most important part of life.
- Love leaves little time for anything else.
- If you can stop one heart from breaking, your life has meaning.
- Friends are like treasure in your life.
- The people we love cannot really die because love lasts forever.
- Even a small smile might be exactly what someone needs.
- We rise up by helping others rise up too.
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Books and Reading
- A book should be like an axe that breaks the frozen sea inside us.
- Books are like keys to secret rooms in your own mind.
- We should read books that wake us up and make us think.
- Books that make us happy are not the ones we need most.
- We need books that affect us like disasters.
- There are worse crimes than burning books - not reading them.
- Books are like medicine for the mind.
- The book to read makes you think, not thinks for you.
- Reading can take you to completely different places.
- A good book equals many friends and teachers.
- Words have no power without the horror of their reality.
- The best books wound us and make us grow.
- Reading is better than many expensive educations.
- Books help us understand what we cannot explain.
- Every book teaches us something about ourselves.
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Writing and Creativity
- Don't think too much when creating - thinking kills creativity.
- A writer who doesn't write is like a monster going crazy.
- Writing is complete loneliness, going deep into yourself.
- Ideas are like rabbits - get a few and soon you have many.
- Fill your eyes with wonder and live like you might die soon.
- We are cups being filled - learn to tip over and let beauty out.
- Don't bend your soul to fit what others want.
- Follow your strongest interests without mercy.
- All language is just a poor translation of what we really mean.
- I write differently from how I speak and think.
- The free mind of a person is the most valuable thing in the world.
- Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty with words.
- Beauty in its highest form makes sensitive people cry.
- Dreams during the day show us things night dreams cannot.
- My imagination might get me in trouble one day.
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Hope and Strength
- Hope is like a bird with feathers that sits in your soul.
- Hope sings songs without words and never stops.
- I live in possibility, not in limits.
- Keep your soul open to welcome amazing experiences.
- A wounded deer jumps the highest of all.
- You gain strength from difficult times.
- Don't give up on someone having a bad day.
- A bad day doesn't cancel out a good life.
- Nothing can dim the light that shines from inside you.
- You may face many defeats, but don't let them defeat you.
- Defeats help you know who you are and what you can overcome.
- When you can't change the wind direction, adjust your sails.
- Have faith when you have nothing else left.
- Keep calm when things don't go as expected.
- Never give up - tomorrow might be different.
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Fear and Courage
- All war shows that humans fail as thinking animals.
- Sometimes a person wants to be stupid to do something brave.
- He is very afraid of dying because he hasn't really lived yet.
- It takes great courage to see the world's problems and still love it.
- The basis of hope is often pure terror.
- Monsters are real and they live inside us.
- Sometimes the monsters inside us win.
- Never think about pain or enemies longer than needed to fight them.
- Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.
- The boundaries between life and death are unclear.
- Even in the grave, not everything is lost.
- Some people think holding on makes them strong.
- Sometimes letting go is what makes you strong.
- It takes courage to care for yourself.
- Caring for yourself is not selfish - it helps you survive.
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Wisdom and Understanding
- Youth is happy because it can see beauty.
- Anyone who keeps seeing beauty never gets old.
- The brain is wider than the sky.
- There is always something new to learn, love, and see.
- We are impossible creatures in an impossible universe.
- I am free, and that is why I feel lost.
- I cannot make anyone understand what happens inside me.
- I cannot even explain my feelings to myself.
- Anyone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- The most common way people lose power is thinking they have none.
- Keep away from people who make your dreams seem small.
- Great people make you feel you can become great too.
- To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
- Be true to yourself above all else.
- The clearest way to understand the universe is through nature.
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Time and Memory
- That something will never come again makes life sweet.
- Forever is made up of many "right now" moments.
- It's hard to forget pain, but harder to remember sweetness.
- We have no scars to show our happiness.
- All that we see or seem is like a dream within a dream.
- Sometimes a moment lasts much longer than a moment.
- Sound and movement can stop for much more than a moment.
- Never look back unless you plan to go that way.
- The past cannot be changed, but the present can be.
- Don't let your happiness depend on something you might lose.
- We should remember our death and try to live well.
- Live so your death brings no joy to the world.
- As you start walking on a path, the path appears.
- Paths are made by walking on them.
- Not knowing when dawn comes, I open every door.
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Success and Failure
- It's impossible to live without failing at something.
- If you live too carefully, you fail by not trying.
- Anything that only costs money is cheap.
- Things we admire in people often lead to failure in our system.
- Traits we hate in people often lead to success.
- Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
- You are limited only by what you haven't desired enough.
- By believing in something that doesn't exist, we create it.
- Finite means you can fail, but infinite means you can try.
- When you venture and try, you always gain something.
- Luck is not chance - it's hard work.
- Fortune's expensive smile must be earned.
- Success in anything requires hard work and determination.
- Winning is not just about luck but also skill and strategy.
- The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Daily Life and Happiness
- Some days even lucky things don't help us feel better.
- I wanted to punch the happy day in the face.
- I haven't had a good day and everyone's dead.
- I hate everybody and everything today.
- One lives only to make mistakes sometimes.
- Maybe it's about finding beautiful moments, not beautiful days.
- A whole day might be too much to ask for.
- There are beautiful pieces in every day if you look for them.
- I've had the kind of day that would make saints angry.
- This is becoming a day where alcohol might cure everything.
- How was your day should be how did you look at your day.
- When you're having a bad day, try to force yourself to laugh.
- If you can smile and laugh, you can chase demons away.
- There is no good or bad day, only good or bad actions.
- Every day brings a chance to start something positive.