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“أعتقد يعني ان الدليل على ان روحك بتكبر فعلا هو ان مفاهيمك تتغير. مش مبادئك, مفاهيمك.”
― أحمد العسيلي

“You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.”
― Miley Cyrus

“فى الحقيقة لا توجد لحظة أخيرة لأى شىء إلا عندما نؤمن بذلك”
― عمرو الجندى

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“لأنَّ لهم دين، يظُّنون أنهم مُعفوْن من أن تكون لهم أخلاق.”
― أمين معلوف

“وكل ما يصدر عن الله جميل ، وإن كنا لا نرى الجمال في المصيبة”
― ابن قيم الجوزية

“لا فائدة، نحن ضحايا و مذنبون معاً، ضحايا لهذا الزمن و لهذه الظروف و ضحايا لتربية شديدة المثالية تلقيناها و لأوهام شدية القوة عشناها، و مذنبون لأننا صدقناها و لم نتمكن من الخروج من أسرها، و الآن أعلم علم اليقين أن الوقت قد حان كى اتوقف عن التصديق و عن الاتباع و أن ادرك أن كل هذ الحلم هو محاولة يائسة. و لكنى لا استطيع التوقف عن التصديق و الاتباع دون أن اموت من الملل و الاكتئاب، و من ثم فإن الخيار الحقيقى هو بين الوهم أو الموت، و ذلك قاع المأساة.”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, غرفة العناية المركزة

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
― Angela Carter

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
― Dean Koontz

“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
― Dean Koontz

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.”
― Dean Koontz

“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.”
― Dean Koontz

“As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope”
― Dean Koontz

“أعطتني القراءة عذرا مقبولا لعزلتي، بل ربما أعطت مغزى لتلك العزلة المفروضة علي.”
― Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“دائما ما يلوم الناس الظروف، و لكني لا أؤمن بالظروف ... الناجحون في هذه الدنيا هم اناس يقومون في الصباح ، و يبحثون عن ظروف مواتية،و إذا لم يجدوها ، صنعوها.”
― برنارد شو

“If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection.”
― Lecrae Moore, Unashamed

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”
― Anthony Trollope

“It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”
― Les Brown

“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”
― Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind