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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

“How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
― Harold Pinter, Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.”
― Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
― Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

“أنا لا يهمني كم من الناس أرضيت .. ولكن يهمني أي نوع من الناس أقنعت”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
― Wyndham Lewis

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
― Wilkie Collins, Armadale

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“يقال إن أقصر قصة كتبها إنسان هي التالية: "رجل ولد وعاش ومات". وأنا أعتقد أن سيرتي - شأن أي مواطن آخر في أوطاننا الجميلة - يمكن أن تروى على النسق نفسه، بشيء من التطويل، لتكون كالتالي: "رجل ولد ولم يعش ومع ذلك سيموت".”
― أحمد مطر

“I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“أشعـر أنني أريد أن أقـول لكـ فقط أحبــك , ومن ثم أبـكي
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أبكـي لأنـها تعبـر عن الكثـير ولأنها تختصـر الكثـير

ولأن الأطفـال حين يعـجزون عـن التعبير يبكون

ويرددون كلمة واحـدة غير مفهومة ومبهمة”
― جبران خليل جبران

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Soul Mates

I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
― Lang Leav