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“Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“In the infinity of life where I am,
All is perfect, whole and complete,
I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself
As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete.”
― Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“يقف الإنسان ليقرر هل يكمل ويستجيب لهمسة الغار، ويصعد ذلك السلم المضيء الملون. سلم «إقرأ»، وكل درجة من درجات السلم يصعدها تغوص به إلى عمق الحقيقة والوعي والإرادة، وتزيد به اقتراباً من دوره ومسؤوليته الحقيقيين. أو أنه يقف على حافة السلم، قدر الطحالب والدواب.”
― الدكتور أحمد خيري العمري

“في بلادنا .. المرأة الذكية .. للاعجاب فقط لا للزواج
في بلادنا المرأة الذكية .. مخيفة لأنها تفهم
ومن ثم .. فإنها تتمرد
في بلادنا .. الرجال يفضلون المرأة الحمقاء”
― سارة درويش

“اللهم أعطنا القوة، لندرك أن الخائفين لا يصنعون الحرية، والضعفاء لا يخلقون الكرامة، والمترددين لن تقوى أيديهم المرتعشة على البناء.”
― جمال عبد الناصر

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.”
― Miranda Kerr

“شيء ما في المدن العربية يجعلها حزينة دوما حتى وهي في أقصى لحظات الفرح.
- ربما الخيبات المتكررة.
- ربما بكل بساطة أننا حرمناها بتخلفنا من أن تكون مدنا ونصر باستمرار على تحويلها إلى حجارة ميتة.”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“نحن نعيش في الشرق حيث لا حوائط ولا أقبية .. الأسرار مشاعة للكل ، والحرية الشخصية جماعية ، والمرأة مهمشة ذليلة ، والإنسان يعيش في بيت من زجاج حيث باستطاعة كل البشر أن يقذفوه بالحجارة.”
― قماشة العليان, أنثى العنكبوت

“When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“الانسان اذا ارتضى الذل يكون قد اصيب بالعطب ولم يعد صالحاً للحياة”
― عبده خال

“لا تثق أبداً في شخص يبدأ كلامه معك بجملة «أصلي عيبي إني صريح» هذا الشخص
وقح للدرجة التي تجعله يجمل عيباً خطيراً فيه ويحوله إلي ميزة، ليس هذا
وحسب، بل إنه أيضا يتحدث عن هذه الميزة بنكران ذات.. شفت البجاحة؟”
― عمر طاهر

“هناك تصرفات حمقاء نمارسها في كل حين ولا نكف عن افتعالها بالرغم من معرفتنا بعمق تلك الحماقة التي نرتكبها في كل حين.”
― عبده خال, الطين

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”
― Haruki Murakami

“We try so hard to be happy that we end up missing the most important parts of our lives and destroying the very peace that we were seeking”
― J. Mark G. Williams, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong, every single time.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
― Khaled Hosseini , And the Mountains Echoed

“I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle