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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“ 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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“لا تستغرب وقوع الأكدار ما دمت في هذه الدار، فإنها ما أبرزت إلا ما هو مستحق وصفها و واجب نعتها”
― الصوفي بن عطاء الله السكندري

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“يا من يرى ما في الضمير و يسمع * أنت المعدّ لكل ما يتوقع
يا من يرجّى للشدائد كلها * يا من اليه المشتكى و المفزع
يا من خزائن رزقه في قول كن * امنن فان الخير عندك أجمع
ما لي سوى فقري اليك وسيلة * و بالافتقار اليك فقري أدفع
ما لي سوى قرعي لبابك حيلة * فلئن طردت فأي باب أقرع
و من الذي أدعو و أهتف باسمه * ان كان فضلك عن فقير يمنع
حاشا لمجدك أن تقنِّط عاصيا * الفضل أجزل و المواهب أوسع
بالذل قد وافيت بابك عالما * ان التذلل عند بابك ينفع
وجعلت معتمدي عليك توكلا * و بسطت كفي سائلا أتضرّع
و بحق من أحببته و بعثته * و أجبت دعوة من به يتشفع
اجعل لنا من كل ضيق مخرجا * و الطف بنا يا من اليه المرجع
ثم الصلاة على النبي و آله * خير الخلائق شافع و مشفّع”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي

“الوهم نصف الداء ، و الاطمئنان نصف الدواء ، و الصبر أول خطوات الشفاء .”
― ابن سينا

“صدقني حين أقول لك: أنت حكاية كبيرة جداً.. لكنك لا تعرف أحياناً قدر نفسك..ولا تجيد في أحيان أخرى استخدام قدراتك ومواهبك.. وخسارة ألف مليون خسارة..أن تتنازل عن عرشك الذي أجلسك عليه ربك بالاستسلام لخور الارادة..أو الكسل والعجز..أو الفشل واليأس..أو نوازع الشر التي لا تليق بمن سجدت لجدّه الملائكة مثلك وبمن ينبغي أن يكون دائماً موضع التكريم والاحترام..لأنه إنسان!”
― عبد الوهاب مطاوع, أرجوك لا تفهمني

“ربما فتح لك باب الطاعة و ما يفتح لك باب القبول، و ربما قضى عليك الذنب فكان سببا في الوصول، فمعصية أورثت ذلا و افتقارا خير من طاعة أورثت عزا واستكبارا”
― ابن عطاء الله السكندري

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.”
― Brené Brown

“ربما أعطاك فمنعك، و ربما منعك فأعطاك، و متى فتح لك باب الفهم في المنع صار المنع عين العطاء.”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري

“Yet, in a bizarre, backwards way, death is the light by which the shadow of all of life’s meaning is measured. Without death, everything would feel inconsequential, all experience arbitrary, all metrics and values suddenly zero.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul”
― John Muir

“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”
― Howard Thurman

“Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy. Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments—often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we’re too busy chasing down extraordinary moments. Other times we’re so afraid of the dark that we don’t dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith. For those of you who follow my blog, you’ll recognize this as the mantra for my gratitude posts on Fridays that I call TGIF. I turned this quote into a small badge, and part of my gratitude practice is a weekly post about what I’m Trusting, what I’m Grateful for, what Inspires me, and how I’m practicing my Faith. It’s incredibly powerful to read everyone’s comments. Joy”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Change as a Choice, Instead of a Reaction It seems that human nature is such that we balk at changing until things get really bad and we’re so uncomfortable that we can no longer go on with business as usual. This is as true for an individual as it is for a society. We wait for crisis, trauma, loss, disease, and tragedy before we get down to looking at who we are, what we are doing, how we are living, what we are feeling, and what we believe or know, in order to embrace true change. Often it takes a worst-case scenario for us to begin making changes that support our health, relationships, career, family, and future. My message is: Why wait?”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“Vault: Learning how to keep confidences, to recognize what's ours to share and what's not. The challenge is to stop using gossip, common enemy intimacy, and oversharing as a way to hotwire connection.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.