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“الأعياد من وجهة نظرى..هى الفترة التى يكتشف فيها الجميع .. فجأة.. أن عليهم أن يتزوجوا!..ويزعجوا المكتئبين أمثالى بعزومات لأفراح تعب المطرب فيها من المناداة على "العنب" !!”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“بعض الأشياء تبهرنا من بعيد....لكننا حين نقترب نكتشف أنه كان من الأفضل أن تبقى بعيدة..ولا ندرى بأن الغموض كان هو المتهم الأول!”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“كما ان الناس سطور كتبت لكن بماء..فما قد نفهمه اليوم ستحيله عواصف الحياة لغزا معقدا بالغد”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“كلما وأدت جرحا..وجدت آخر أكثر عمقا..أكثر إيلاما..
كلا..لا زال أمامك الكثير،فأنت بالحقيقة مازلت تضمد السطح!”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“كالفراشة التى تنجذب لا شعوريا للنار..فتكون نهايتها،
ننجذب نحن البشر..دوما..
لما يهلكنا!”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“الماضى...
ليس سوى وهم جميل صنعته خيبة أمل حاضرة..
وتأبى ذاكرة الوهم..إسقاطه.”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“نسيت تقنية الرسم،فجاءت ابتسامتى أشبه بشخبطة الأطفال”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“قدر معين من البرود..يلزمنا دوما كى نجد القدرة على الاستمرار فى واقع صادم..
لكنه إذا ازداد هذا القدر..
لك أن تخشى على إنسانيتك"..”
― حفصة الشرقاوى

“كل الأشياء الجميلة تنتهي! كل الأشياء الحزينة تنتهي!”
― عبد الوهاب المسيري, رحلتي الفكرية: في البذور والجذور والثمر

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“لو كآن الله في نواياهم !

لفاح الجمال في لغتهم !”
― مجهول

“وحيدٌ
بقدرِ ما في البحرِ من زرقةٍ وجثث.”
― سوزان عليوان

“لكي تصل إلى النغمة الحقيقية في حياتك العاطفية .. فعليك البحث عن قلب يفهمك ، وعقل يحبك”
― عبدالله الجفري

“ماأضيع العمر بددا ، حين نبعثره في محاولات الاكتشاف في كل مرة : والعثور ، والفقد ، والتجارب .. ونطعنه بالعناد !”
― عبدالله الجفري

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”
― Albert Einstein

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
― Albert Einstein

“I have learned that the kindness of a teacher, a coach, a policeman, a neighbor, the parent of a friend, is never wasted. These moments are likely to pass with neither the child nor the adult fully knowing the significance of the contribution. No ceremony attaches to the moment that a child sees his own worth reflected in the eyes of an encouraging adult. Though nothing apparent marks the occasion, inside that child a new view of self might take hold. He is not just a person deserving of neglect or violence, not just a person who is a burden to the sad adults in his life, not just a child who fails to solve his family’s problems, who fails to rescue them from pain or madness or addiction or poverty or unhappiness. No, this child might be someone else, someone whose appearance before this one adult revealed specialness or lovability, or value.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah