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“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
― Steve Jobs

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”
― Steve Jobs

“I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And I know what he means, because I worked really, really hard in my 20s too. Literally, you know, 7 days a week, a lot of hours every day. And it actually is a wonderful thing to do, because you can get a lot done. But you can't do it forever, and you don't want to do it forever, and you have to come up with ways of figuring out what the most important things are and working with other people even more.”
― Steve Jobs

“In two days he saw Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and the management of their Wall Street Journal; Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and the top executives at the New York Times; and executives at Time, Fortune, and other Time Inc. magazines. “I would love to help quality journalism,” he later said. “We can’t depend on bloggers for our news.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”
― Steve Jobs, I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“أنتَ يا ولَدي مثلَ السيف، ونحنُ لسنا بحاجة لـِسيف في فلسطين، فالسلطة باعت والعدو اشتري ولا مكانَ للسيوفِ هنا..”
― عبد الله البرغوثي, أمير الظل

“وليعلم كل من تقرأ عيناه هذه الكلمات والومضات , أن الحياة واحدة وأن الرب واحد!
فإما عيشة تتوجها الكرامة والعزة , وإما موتة يقصد بها وجه الله عز وجل لترتقي بعدها الروح صاعدةً لله رب العزة”
― عبد الله البرغوثى, أمير الظل: مهندس على الطريق

“إنّ فلسطين بأقصاها وقدسها تستحق كل ما قدمت لها ولأجلها !
ويشهد الله، إذا ما ظل بجسدي نفس، فلن أبخل به على وطني السليب، فليس بعد القدوس إلا القدس فليس بعد القدس إلا القسام”
― عبد الله البرغوثي

“لم أكن أعلم أن هناك أعراساً تقام للموتى ، القتلى ,ولكن علمت أن هناك أعراساً تقام للشهداء .”
― عبد الله البرغوثي, أمير الظل