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“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another ...”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

“While I thus cogitate in disquiet and perplexity, half submerged in dark waters of a well in an Arabian oasis, I suddenly hear a voice from the background of my memory, the voice of an old Kurdish nomad: If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. Whereupon, as if by magic, all disquiet leaves me. I begin to look upon myself with distant eyes, as you might look at the pages of a book to read a story from them; and I begin to understand that my life could not have taken a different course. For when I ask myself, 'What is the sum total of my life?' somthing in me seems to answer, 'You have set out to exchange one world for another-to gain a new world for yourself in exchange for an old one which you never really possessed.' And I know with startling clarity that such an undertaking might indeed take an entire lifetime.”
― Muhammad Asad

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“إعلم أيها الحريص المقبل على إقتباس العلم، المظهر من نفسه صدق الرغبة، وفرط التعطش إليه أنك إن كنت تقصد بالعلم المنافسة، والمباهاة، والتقدم على الأقران، واستمالة وجوه الناس إليك، وجمع حطام الدنيا؛ فأنت ساع في هدم دينك، وإهلاك نفسك، وبيع آخرتك بدنياك؛ فصفقتك خاسرة، وتجارتك بائرة، ومعلمك معين لك على عصيانك، وشريك لك في خسرانك، وهو كبائع سيف لقاطع طريق.”
― أبو حامد الغزالي, بداية الهداية

“وإن الشي ليتضاعف حسنه ، في عين مستحسنه”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف

“وسرني أهل العلم مرتين من عمري إحداهما بتعليمي أيام جهلي والثانية بمذاكرتي أيام علمي”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, كتاب الأخلاق والسير: أو رسالة في مداواة النفوس وتهذيب الأخلاق والزهد في الرذائل

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“ثق بالمتدين وإن كان على غير دينك ولا تثق بالمستخف وإن أظهر أنه على دينك”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, كتاب الأخلاق والسير: أو رسالة في مداواة النفوس وتهذيب الأخلاق والزهد في الرذائل

“Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.


When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.


And let your best be for your friend.
If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.
For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“،صديقُك هو حاجَةٌ لك قُضيت
،و هو حقْلك تُلقي فيه البذور في حُبٍ، و تجني منه الثّمار في شُكر
و هو مائدة طعامك و مدْفأتك؛
.لأنك تسعى إليه بجوعك، وتَنشُد عنده الطُّمأنينة

و حين يُفضي إليك صديقُك بما يدور في نفسه لا تخشى أن تُصرِّح "له بـ "لا"، وأن تَضن عليه بـ "نعم.
،فإذا أمسك عن الكلام، ظلَّ قلبك يُصغي إلى حديث قلبه
ففي الصداقة تنبعث الأفكار و الرَّغبات و الأماني جميعاً في صمت، .و تُشاركُ فيها النُّفوس في بهجة مُضْمَرة”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet