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“Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”
― Ann Brashares

“Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.”
― Ann Brashares

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”
― Ann Brashares

“لم أفهم معنى ذلك الموت ، لا أفهم معنى للموت .. لكن ما دام محتماً فلنفعل شيئاً يبرر حياتنا . فلنترك بصمة على هذه الأرض قبل أن نغادرها .”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“كان عيدا و انتهى. كان كابوساً و انتهى. كان ما كان .... و انتهى”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“لا ييأس من الوقت إلا من يجهل أن الرحمة تسبق الوقت ولا يسبقها الوقت”
― بهاء طاهر

“إبحث عن السعادة كل لحظة، لو لم تجدها خارجك إصنعها داخلك، و إبحث عن العلم و ليس عن الحقيقة”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“لو إتأثرت أثر في اللي جنبك، كون ترس مش عطلان في مكنة بتحاول تشتغل و
تقوم، ماتكونش شارع سد، على الأقل، ماتبقاش أتفه من خيال المآتة، مش بتخوف
حد غير نفسك”
― عمرو سلامة

“Memories were fine but you couldn't touch them, smell them or hold them. They were never exactly as the moment was, and they faded with time.”
― Cecelia Ahern

“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.”
― Cecelia Ahern

“مش مهم انك تغير الكون... المهم انك تخلي الكون ما يغيركش”
― عمر طاهر

“ازاى الخوف وصلنى لدرجة انى ماخافش؟
ياللى فرقتوا الحب أنا قلبى بجد ماخدش”
― عمر طاهر, قهوة وشيكولاتة

“هناك فراغات يتركها الراحلون فراغات لا يمكن أن تملؤها بشخص آخر فالفراغ الذى يتركه رحيل الأم لا تملؤه حبيبه والفراغ الذى تتركه الحبيبة لا يملؤه صديق والفراغ الذى يتركه صديق لا يملؤه صديق آخر,الأشخاص كالألوان اذا رحل عن حياتك اللون الأحمر قد يهون عليك اللون الأخضر بعض الألم لكنه مهما كان مخلصا لن يصيح أحمر فى يوم من الأيام”
― عمر طاهر, جر ناعم

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“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

“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

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

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard