Chady > Chady 's Quotes

“We have too much technological
progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent
still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better.
The craving for every new scientific discovery breeds a hunger for
greater comfort and the constant struggle to achieve it. All that kills the
soul, kills compassion, understanding, nobility. It leaves no time for
caring what happens to other people, least of all criminals. Even the
officials in Venezuela's remote areas are better for they're also
concerned with public peace. It gives them many headaches, but they
seem to believe that bringing about a man's salvation is worth the
effort. I find that magnificent.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
― Rumi

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
― Rumi

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

“عليهم أن يجاهدوا في نفوسهم هوى السلطة و زينة مقاعد الحكم، و أن يجتهدوا قبل أن يجهدوا الآخرين بحلم لا غناء فيه، و أن يفكروا قبل أن يكفّروا، و أن يواجهوا مشاكل المجتمع بالحل لا بالهجرة، و أن يقتصدوا في دعوى الجاهلية حتى لا تقترن بالجهل، و أن يعلموا أن الإسلام أعز من أن يهينوه بتصور المصادمة مع العصر، و أن الوطن أعز من أن يهدموا وحدته بدعاوى التعصب، و أن المستقبل يصنعه القلم لا السواك، و العمل لا الاعتزال، و العقل لا الدروشة، و المنطق لا الرصاص، و الأهم من ذلك كله أن يدركوا حقيقة غائبة عنهم، و هي أنهم ليسوا وحدهم..جماعة المسلمين”
― فرج فودة, الحقيقة الغائبة

“There had fallen between us what Dogger once referred to as "a companionable silence," a little parcel of time during which neither of us felt any particular need to talk.”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,
Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity
And the wisdom of age? Had they deceived us
Or deceived themselves, the quiet-voiced elders,
Bequeathing us merely a receipt for deceit?
The serenity only a deliberate hebetude,
The wisdom only the knowledge of dead secrets
Useless in the darkness into which they peered
Or from which they turned their eyes. There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge derived from experience.
The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies,
For the pattern is new in every moment
And every moment is a new and shocking
Valuation of all we have been. We are only undeceived
Of that which, deceiving, could no longer harm.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets