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“شئ عجيب .. كأن العالم الخارجى ليست له ألوان, وأن هذه الألوان تخرج من عيوننا, فالسعيد يجعل الدنيا حوله سعيدة والشقى يجعلها كذلك. والذى لايستطيع شئ تقف الدنيا كلها فى حلقه, أو تسقط من عينيه, أو تنهار من أذنيه, فالدنيا كلها تخرج منا وتتشكل وتتلون وتقرب وتبعد كما نريد..”
― أنيس منصور

“: يجدُ الأزواج أنفسهم محاصرين بين نوعين من المبالغة
.. مُبالغة في قيمة كل شيئ قبل الزواج
. ومُبالغة في تفاهه كل شيئ بعد الزواج”
― أنيس منصور, وداعًا أيها الملل

“I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control...”
― Leila Meacham, Roses

“Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’
‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’
‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’
‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”
― Virginia Woolf

“They'll be days like this" my momma said.
When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises.
When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape.
When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment
And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".”
― Sarah Kay

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Silence can often be more disturbing than noise, it reveals the complicated mechanism of our thoughts”
― Jose Rodrigues Migueis

“Who Am I? I am not a disease, nor my weight, nor even my family. I am not my job, or my things, or the house I live in. I am not the words used to describe me (quiet or boring or something else I haven't thought of), the books I read, or the clothes I wear. I am not what you see, on the outside or what I say or even the things I do. It's all illusory. I am, instead, this essence inside. I am the strength that gives me breath each day. I am the love I feel within. I am a light in the dark. I am a little piece of this universe. I am human. I am silence. I am hope burning. I am kindness. I am laughter. I am all of these things. I am.”
― Erica Orloff

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay

“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the very least they lie in the veil of between. I on the other hand, do not belong to any group. I don’t exist. It’s not that I don’t have substance; I have a body like everyone else. I can feel the fire when it burns against my skin, the rain when it caresses my face and the breeze as it fingers my hair. I have all the senses that other people do. I am just empty, inside.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“و حين يقول الإسلام للإنسان يجب عليك أن تفتح عينيك و لا تنقاد لما يوبقك مغمض العينين, فكأنه يقول له "يحق لك أن تنظر في شأنك, بل في أكبر شأن من شئون حياتك, و لا يحق لأبائك أن يجعلوك ضحية مستسلمة للجهالة التي درجوا عليها".”
― عباس محمود العقاد, التفكير فريضة إسلامية

“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
― Maya Angelou

“كان صراعا بين ملاك و شيطان ..لكن الرغبة تهزم الملائكة”
― نجيب محفوظ

“باستثناءِ شفتيكِ"
لا أعرفُ
كيفَ أقطفُ الوردةَ”
― عدنان الصائغ

“كلا .. لست أهوى القراءة لأكتب، ولا أهوى القراءة لازداد عمراً في تقدير الحساب .. وإنما أهوى القراءة لأن عندي حياة واحدة في هذه الدنيا، وحياة واحدة لا تكفيني، ولا تحرك كل ما في ضميري من بواعث الحركة. والقراءة دون غيرها هي التي تعطيني أكثر من حياة واحدة في مدى عمر الانسان الواحد، لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة من ناحية العمق، وإن كانت لا تطيلها بمقادير الحساب.
فكرتك أنت فكرة واحدة .. شعورك أنت شعور واحد .. خيالك أنت خيال فرد إذا قصرته عليك .. ولكنك إذا لاقيت بفكرتك فكرة أخرى، أو لاقيت بشعورك شعوراً آخر، أو لاقيت بخيالك خيال غيرك .. فليس قصارى الأمر أن الفكرة تصبح فكرتين، أو أن الشعور يصبح شعورين، أو أن الخيال يصبح خيالين .. كلا .. وإنما تصبح الفكرة بهذا التلاقي مئات من الفكر في القوة والعمق والامتداد. [..] لا أحب الكتب لأنني زاهد في الحياة .. ولكنني أحب الكتب لأن حياة واحدة لا تكفيني .. ومهما يأكل الانسان فإنه لن يأكل بأكثر من معدة واحدة، ومهما يلبس فإنه لن يلبس على غير جسد واحد، ومهما يتنقل في البلاد فإنه لن يستطيع أن يحل في مكانين. ولكنه بزاد الفكر والشعور والخيال يستطيع أن يجمع الحيوات في عمر واحد، ويستطيع أن يضاعف فكره وشعوره وخياله كما يتضاعف الشعور بالحب المتبادل، وتتضاعف الصورة بين مرآتين”
― عباس محمود العقاد, أنا

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“الوحدة كالتضور جوعًا: لا يمكنك أن تدرك إلى أي مدى أنت جائع حتى تبدأ في الأكل.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“نموت كي يحيا الوطن، يحيى لمن؟!!
من بعدنا يبقى التراب و العفن.
نحن الوطن”
― أحمد مطر

“إن اللغة لم تخترع للتعبير عن النفس ، ولكن لإخفاء مافي النفس .. والتمويه على الناس حتى لا يدركوا حقيقة مافي النفس ”
― محمد الغزالي

“I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“آلاف من الناس يُصفعون كل يوم ولكن قليلاً منهم من يشعر بالإهانة أو الغضب”
― بهاء طاهر, قالت ضحى