You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.
Kehidupan lebih nyata daripada pendapat siapapun tentang kenyataan.
Lihat, ini Arok, yang tetap mempertahankan Tumapel. Dia dan pasukannya akan mempertahankannya sampai titik darah terakhir. Bukan karena imbalan uang, emas dan perak dan singgasana. Hanya karena kesetiaan pada janji.
Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear in the infinity of nature.
People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
But I couldn’t stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.
All we can do is pray, Ma, pray.No, Child, these are the deeds of human beings. Planned by the brains of humans, and by the warped hearts of humans. It is to people we must speak our words. God has never sided with the defeated.
People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.
A mother knows what her child’s gone through, even if she didn’t see it herself.
There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country’s expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it’s not difficult finding space for one’s grave.
As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.