Ada satu titik di dalam hidup ketika kamu merasa duniamu hancur, tujuan hidup tak lagi jelas, dan kamu tak tahu harus melakukan apa. Hang on, guys! Dunia ini penuh dengan hal-hal menakjubkan yang mungkin belum kamu ketahui. Jangan patah semangat karena hidupmu belum berakhir. Ingat, after the storm comes the rainbows.
Berikut adalah quotes dari buku-buku yang bisa menjadi penyemangat ketika kamu merasa down. Baca baik-baik, ya.
“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren’t you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen to you, are not one and the same.”
—Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
—George Orwell, 1984
“Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, ‘You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.’ It’s saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.’”
—Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
—Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
—Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world.”
—S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
“We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”
—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
—Roald Dahl, The Witches
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Semoga setelah membaca quotes di atas, perasaanmu akan menjadi lebih baik. Semoga membantu!