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“stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“إن انتشار الكفر في العالم يحمل نصف أوزاره متدينون بغضوا الله إلى خلقه بسوء صنيعهم وسوء كلامهم”
― محمد الغزالي

“Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“مِن السقوطِ أن يُسَخِّرَ المَرْءُ مواهبَه العظيمة من أجْلِ غايةٍ تافهة”
― محمد الغزالي

“سنمــوت بالطبع في النهـايــة....سنمـوت مثل كل النــاس...ولكــن يجب ألا نمــوت مهزوميــن”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“لا أحذركم إلا من عدو واحد هو اليأس”
― نجيب محفوظ, كفاح طيبة

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“الحكاية لا تكتمل بروايتها، إنما يكملها من يسمعها”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“الحقيقة بسيطة لا تحتاج الي زخرفة الكلمات ”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“من الحكمة أن نقدر جميع العواقب ، وقد قال حكيمنا قاقمنا : ((لا تضع كل أسهمك في جعبة واجدة))”
― نجيب محفوظ, كفاح طيبة

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“If I believe I will win, then victory will believe in me.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“مهمة الدين إذا رأى عاثراً أن يعينه على النهوض ، لا أن يتقدم للإجهاز عليه.”
― محمد الغزالي

“إن الإسلام يكره لك أن تكون متردداً في أمورك, تحار في اختيار أصوبها وأسلمها, وتكثر الهواجس في رأسك, فتخلق أمامك جواً من الريبة والتوجس, فلا تدري كيف تفعل؟! وتضعف قبضتك في الإمساك بما ينفعك, فيفلت منك, ثم يذهب سدى, إن هذاالاضطراب لا يليق بالمسلم.”
― محمد الغزالي, خلق المسلم

“من سقوط الهمة أن ترتبط الآمال بالتافه من الأحوال”
― محمد الغزالي, خلق المسلم

“إن فساد الأديان يجيء من تحولها إلى ألفاظ ومظاهر”
― محمد الغزالي, فن الذكر والدعاء عند خاتم الأنبياء

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
― Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
― Noam Chomsky