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“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
― Mother Teresa

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“I had been brought up to believe that you never told tales, and that you should fight your own battles”
― King Abdullah II of Jordan, Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.”
― Myra McEntire, Hourglass

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“هل في وسعي أن اختار أحلامي , لئلا أحلم بما لا يتحقق”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب
ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء
ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس ، وثقافتهم لاتتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه ، وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“My soul is in the sky.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“You cannot be anything you want to be - but you can be a whole lot more of who you already are.”
― Tom Rath

“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“لا أدري لماذا يعتريني الشعور أحياناً أن العلاقة بين الرجل العربي والمرأة العربية هي علاقة عقارية, ينطبق عليها كل ما ينطبق على العلاقات العقارية من معاينة, ودفع رسوم, وإستملاك.
إن الرجولة كما يفهمها مجتمع الرجال لدينا هي القائمة على الكسر, والقمع, وإلغاء إرادة [المرأة.]
النساء كالرجال لسن كلهن قديسات ووادعات وضحايا, فالضحية ليس لها جنس, فقد تكون امرأة شفافة كدموع الكريستال وقد تكون رجلا له شارب وعضلات ويحمل مسدساً.”
― نزار قباني

“سأكون يوماً ما أريد”
― محمود درويش

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the vibrancy of our physical health, and the pride we take in what we have contributed to our communities. Most importantly, it’s about how these five elements interact.”
― Tom Rath, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements