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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

“He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said boo to a loser like him but about whom he could not stop dreaming.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“أوَّلُ التّواضُعِ ألاّ تَشْهَدَ نَفْسَكَ مُتَواضِعًا؛ فالمُخْلِصُون يَظُنّونَ أنَّ قُلُوبَهُم فِيها شَيءٌ مِّن العُجْب!”
― عدنان إبراهيم

“نحن نقف مع فلسطين لا لأننا فلسطينيون أو عرب بل نقف معها لأنها امتحان يومي لضمير العالم”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أقل من عدو أكثر من صديق: السيرة الطائرة

“لكن من قال أننا بحاجة دائما لمكان واسع كي نضيع ؟!”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, أقل من عدو أكثر من صديق: السيرة الطائرة

“I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“كم من امرأة تحسب آية في جمالها وفي تناسبها وملاحتها ومع ذلك غير جميلة .. اذا سر امروء بمشاهدتها مرة او مرات فهو لا يتمنى مجالستها ويمل كلامها وسخافتها بعد ان يعرفها قليلا .. اذ يرى ان احسن ما فيها هو هذا الشيء الخارجي الذي لا يكفي لامتلاك القلوب واكتساب الارواح”
― مي زيادة, سوانح فتاة

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

“أحكي للعالم أحكي له
عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..

أحكي عن شاةٍ لم تُحلب
عن عَجنةِ أُمّ ما خُبزت
عن سقفٍ طينيّ أعشب
أحكي للعالم أحكي له..

يا بنتَ الجارِ المنسيّة
الدُّمية عندي محميّة
الدُّمية عندي فَتعالي
في باصِ الرّيح الشرقيّة..

حنّا لا أذكرُ قَسماتك
لكني أشقى كي أذكر
في قلبي خَفقةُ خطواتك
عصفورٌ يَدرج أو يكبر..

أحكي للعالم أحكي له
عن بيتٍ كَسروا قِنديله
عن فأسٍ قتلت زنبقةً
وحريقٍ أودى بجديلة..

كُنّا ما أجملَ ما كُنّا
يا بنتَ الجارِ ويا حنّا
كنّا فلماذا أعيننا
صارت بالغربة مجبولة
ولماذا صارت أيدينا
بحبالِ اللعنة مجدولة..”
― سميح القاسم

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“When you can live forever what do you live for?”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“ليس بالضرورة أن تكون الأشياء العميقة معقّدة.
وليس بالضرورة أن تكون الأشياء البسيطة ساذجة..
إن الانحياز الفنّي الحقيقي هو:
كيف يستطيع الإنسان أن يقول الشيء العميق ببساطة”
― غسان كنفاني

“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath

“I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons”
― Christopher Poindexter

“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“She was strange and beautiful and those were human qualities that I had never seen Weaved together before. She became terrifying to me, not because I feared who she was, but for the sake of love, I feared what she could do to me.”
― Christopher Poindexter

“Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now.”
― Mitch Albom , For One More Day

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“فيتأكد لي مع كل صباح أن فى هذه الحياة رغم كل شيء، ما يستحق الحياة”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland