Amerikali yazar, gazeteci ve Newsweek kose yazari Anna Quindlen’in dogum gunu (8 Temmuz 1953)
“Asla yasaminizi ve isinizi birbirine karistirmayin. Size bunu soylemek zorundayim. Ikincisi ilkinin yalnizca bir parcasi. Senator Paul Tsongas, kanser oldugunu ogrendikten sonra yeniden secime girme karari aldiginda bir arkadasimin ona yazdigi su sozleri her zaman hatirlayin: ‘Hic kimse olum doseginde keske buromda daha fazla zaman gecirseydim demez.’ ”
“Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote to Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator had decided not to run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: ‘No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.' ‘"
"Mutlu olmak. Bu cok daha kolaydir, surekli kacirdigin ya da kacirdigini dusundugun seylerin ozlemini duymak yerine elindekini sevmeyi ogrenmek. Cok daha huzurludur."
"The being happy. It's so much easier, to learn to love what you have instead of yearning always for what you're missing, or what you imagine you're missing. It's so much more peaceful.”
"Kitaplar ucaktir, trendir, yoldur. Onlar hedef yeridir, yolculugun kendisidir. Onlar, evimizdir."
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”




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