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“Z irytacjÄ… czytam w celebryckich wywiadach zbanalizowany cytat z Nietzschego: „Co ciÄ™ nie zabije, to ciÄ™ wzmocniâ€�. Uważam, że jest wrÄ™cz przeciwnie. To dobre doÅ›wiadczenia dajÄ… nam siÅ‚Ä™, pewność siebie i optymizm. Cierpienie ogranicza, wywoÅ‚uje rysy, które wpisujÄ… siÄ™ na twardy dysk naszej osobowoÅ›ci. I gdzieÅ› tam pozostajÄ…, mniej lub bardziej ukryte. Gdyby miaÅ‚y wzmacniać, to najwiÄ™kszymi herosami winni być ludzie po Auschwitz. A nie sÄ…â€�”
― Monika Jaruzelska, Towarzyszka Panienka

“Traveling alone, you get to be whoever you want. I don't mean lie. I mean you get to be a blank slate. You can't leave behind your skin color, or your height, or the handsomeness or homeliness of your face. But you can leave your story behind. If you've broken hearts, the new place doesn't know. If you've lost trust in people and yourself, the new place doesn't know. If everyone thinks you love Jesus, but you never really have figured out what you believe, the new place doesn't care. It may assume you have it all tied nicely in a bow. All your thoughts and histories. Just feeling like your past isn't a vice to hold you in place can be very freeing. Feeling like your family and the expectations and the traditions and the judgments are absent... it can fill your veins with possibility and fire.”
― Jedidiah Jenkins, To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret

“is generally supposed that Conservatives are old people, and that those in favour of change are the young. That is not quite correct. Usually Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think about how to live, and have not time to think, and therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen. Thus it was with Eugene. Having settled in the village, his aim and ideal was to restore the form of life that had existed, not in his father’s time â€� but in his grandfather’s.173”
― Orlando Figes, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming