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“_ عليك اذن ان تقرئى بطريقة أخرى
-كيف؟؟
_لا وجود لطريقة نافعة للجميع ،فكل شخص يخترع طريقته ، طريقته الخاصه ، هنالك من يقضى حياته كلها فى القراءة دون ان يمضى الى ماهو أبهد من القراءة ،هؤلاء يبقون ملتصقين بالصفحات ، لا يدركون ان الكلمات سوى احجار مصفوفة تعترض تيار النهر،واذا كانت هناك فانها موجودة لكى نتمكن من الوصول الى الضفة الاخرى، الضفة الاخرى هى المهمة
-الا اذا
_الا اذا ماذا ؟؟
-الا اذا لم تكن لهذه الانهار ضفتان وانما ضفاف كثيرة ، وكل شخص يقرأ تكون تلك ضفته الخاصة ، و تكون له وله وحدة الضفى التى سيصل اليها .”
― خوسيه ساراماجو

“I feel we owe it to ourselves as writers to see these clichés and stereotypes for exactly what they are—mere snapshots.”
― Luke Edley

“I think every writer owes it to themselves to face some harsh truths: in order to make a good impression, you need a unique name.”
― Luke Edley

“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“لو سألوني عن رام الله لقلت: رام الله هي تلك المدينة المعبقة برائحة الحرية والاحتلال على حد سواء... تلك المدينة التي حتى في خطاياها عبادة”
― Abeer Allan

“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.”
― Mark Twain

“ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't weep. Don't say,

He's gone! He's gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they're not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it's really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here, and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.

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One who does what the Friend wants done
will never need a friend.

There's a bankruptcy that's pure gain.
The moon stays bright when it
doesn't avoid the night.

A rose's rarest essence
lives in the thorn.

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Childhood, youth, and maturity,
and now old age.

Every guest agrees to stay
three days, no more.

Master, you told me to
remind you. Time to go.

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The angel of death arrives,
and I spring joyfully up.

No one knows what comes over me
when I and that messenger speak!

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When you come back inside my chest no matter how far I've wandered off,
I look around and see the way.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing.

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Last night things flowed between us
that cannot now be said or written.

Only as I'm being carried out
and down the road, as the folds of my shroud open in the wind,

will anyone be able to read, as on
the petal-pages of a turning bud,
what passed through us last night.

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I placed one foot on the wide plain
of death, and some grand
immensity sounded on the emptiness.

I have felt nothing ever
like the wild wonder of that moment.

Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.

Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.”
― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems – Coleman Barks's Sublime Renderings of the 13th-Century Sufi Mystic's Insights into Divine Love and the Human Heart

“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

“It would be unjust to blame the past for choices made in the present. Nor can we justify present choices by invoking the sins of the past.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Wicked Ones

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
― Mary Oliver

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”
― Benjamin Mee, We Bought a Zoo

“they asked "do you love her to death?"

i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“الذي يجبرنا على أن نزغرد في جنازات شهدائنا هو ذلك الذي قتلهم، نزغرد حتى لانجعله يحس لحظة أنه هزمنا وإن عشنا سأذكرك أننا سنبكي كثيرا بعد أن نتحرر..!”
― إبراهيم نصرالله, أعراس آمنة

“انظر إلى الدمع فأراه متعبا مثلنا ،ولست أدري حين كنت أضع رأسه على كتفي هل كنتُ أضع رأسه أم أضع تلك الدموع التي قد تكون مثلنا تبحثُ عن كتف .”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“أسوء شيء أن يباغتك الفرح رغم أنك تنتظره من زمن طويل”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“كل الأحلام صغيرة وتظلُّ صغيرة، ولذلك، ليس غريباً أننا نحن من نرعاها طوال العمر. لو كانت الأحلام كبيرة لقامت بنفسها لترعانا”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“كل الجميلين يثيرون شهية الموت, وغسان من هؤلاء”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“الجميلون يصبحون جميلين فقط، لأنهم استطاعوا الوصول إلى الأشياء التي يحبونها، الأشياء التي نحبها، الأشياء التي تحبها الحياة”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“ظل يبكي حتى بعد أن يُغلق عينيه براحتيه. فأُحّسُ بأن الدمع قادمٌ من مكان بعيد، مكان بعيد جداً، ربما من أول جنازة لشهيد سقط على هذه الأرض، ربما من جنازة عيسى عليه السلام.أنظر إلى الدمع فأراه متعباً، مثلنا، ولست أدري،حين كنت أضع رأسه على كتفي هل كنت أضع رأسه أم أضع تلك الدموع التي قد تكون، مثلنا، تبحث عن كتف.”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة

“نحن تناثر عبر أولادنا، أتعرف لماذا؟ لأننا نحرص حين يجيء الموت أن يكون جزء منا قد أفلت منه”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أعراس آمنة