Iman Idris > Iman's Quotes

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Yes, we too are stardust.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“حين سألنى صحفى شاب لماذا تكتب ,قلت اكتب كيلا اذهب للطبيب النفسى , ثم ذهبت , و حين حكيت للطبيب كل ما رأيت طلب منى ألا اعود مرة اخرى لأنى اصيبه بالاكتئاب”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, غرفة العناية المركزة

“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past;(...).We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recalled and admixed with every new perception.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
― Oliver Sacks

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne

“أقول للطبيب: أشعر بالخوف، في الصحو والمنام. ربما أطير لأنني خائفة، ولكن عندما أطير أتخفف من خوفي. لا أعود أنتبه لوجوده. وحين
يغلب الخوف أجد نفسي غير قادرة على الوقوف أو المشي. أتمترس في السرير. يبدو الذهاب إلى العمل أو الخروج من البيت مهمة مستحيلة. أتحاشى الخروج ما أمكن. أتحاشى الناس، وأشعر بالوحشة لأنني بعيدة عنهم في الوقت نفسه. لحظة استيقاظي من النوم هي الأصعب. يستغرقني الاستعداد للخروج إلى العمل ساعتين، لا لأنني أتزيّن وأتجمل بل لأنني لا أكون قادرة على النزول إلى الشارع والذهاب إلى الوظيفة ولقاء من سألتقي بهم. وحين أذهب إلى العمل وأنهمك فيه، يتراجع الخوف كأنه كان وهماً، أو كأن حالتي في الصباح لم تكن سوى هواجس وخيالات. أسميت شعوري خوفاً ولكنني لست متأكدة من دقة التوصيف، ربما هو شيء آخر، إعراض أو توجس أو شعور مختلط لا يشكل الخوف إلا عنصراً واحداً من عناصره. لا أدري
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― رضوى عاشور, فرج

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

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Peace is only a thought away.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor

“I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Based upon my experience with losing my left mind, I whole-heartedly believe that the feeling of deep inner peace is neurological circuitry located in our right brain.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey