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“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

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

“If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
― Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“عندما تفكر فى الأمر, الظلم و الشر موجودان فى كل مكان فى العالم... المهم هو أن تعيش بحيث تبقى الطيبة بداخلك سليمة”
― أورهان باموق, The New Life

“الوداع لا يقع إلا لمن يعشق بعينيه أما ذاك الذي يحب "بروحه" وقلبه فلا ثمة انفصال "أبدا".”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“انظر إلى وجه كلّ إنسان، وكن منتبهاً، فلعلّك تغدو من التأمل عارفاً بالوجوه.
ولما كان كثير من الأبالسة يظهرون في صورة الإنسان، فليس يليق بالمرء أن يمدّ يده لكلّ يد.
ذلك لأن الصياد يصطنع الصفير، لكي يوقع الطائر في حبائله.
فيسمع الطائر صوت أبناء جنسه. فيجيء من الهواء فيجد الشبكة والسكين.
إن الرجل اللئيم يسرق لغة الدراويش ليتلو على البسطاء أسطورة منها يخدعهم بها ~”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

“ ثمّة لحظات تمُر في حياتنا جميعاً نُدرك عند حدوثها أننا سنقضي فترة طويلة جداً دون أن ننساها ”
― أورهان باموق, My Name Is Red

“لا تحاول أن تقاوم التغييرات التي تعترض سبيلك ، بل دع الحياة تعيش فيك. ولا تقلق إذا قلبت حياتك رأساً على عقب. فكيف يمكنك أن تعرف أن الجانب الذي اعتدت عليه أفضل من الجانب الذي سيأتي؟”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love