Muhammad Habib > Muhammad's Quotes

“لحكمة ما سجدت الملائكة للانسان, الا يتضمن هذا تفوق ما هو إنساني على ما هو ملائكي”
― Alija Izetbegović, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“يمكن أن يكون التعليم لا إنسانيا إذا كان عملية من جانب واحد، موجها وقائما على تلقين تعاليم حزبية، إذا لم يكن يعلّم الفرد كيف يفكر بطريقة إستقلالية، إذا كان يقدم إجابات جاهزة، إذا كان يُعدّ الناس للوظائف المختلفة بدلا من توسيع أفقهم، وبالتالي حريتهم.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“إن أي تلاعب بالناس حتى ولو كان في مصلحتهم هو أمر لاإنساني، أن تفكر بالنيابة عنهم وأن تحررهم من مسؤولياتهم والتزاماتهم هو أيضا لا إنساني.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“حاولت التزام الصمت الذي أجيده، بيتي القديم الذي جاهدت منذ سنين في ترميم أحجاره كي لا ينهار، حتى إنني نكّسته ودسست بين ضلوعه القوائم الخشبية وطردت سكانه، ما عدا أنا، وها أنا أسمع صوت الطقطقات، وأرى التراب يتسرب من السقف فوق رأسي، ثم حدث الانفجار..”
― أحمد مراد

“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”
― Nelson Mandela

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“الصلاة لا يمكن أدائها إلا بضبط الوقت والإنجاه في المكان الصحيح فاحتاج المسلمون إلى علم الفلك, والزكاة تحتاج إلى إحصاء ودليل وحساب, سنجد أن المجتمع المسلم بدون أن يمارس أي شيء إلا هذه الأعمدة الخمسة يجب عليه أن يبلغ حداً أدنى من الحضارة , معنى هذا أن الإنسان لا يستطيع أن يكون مسلماً ويبقى متخلفاً. وتاريخ العلوم الإسلامية تبين لنا أن تطور جميع الميادين العلمية في القرن الأول قد بدأت بمحاولات تحقيق الفرائض الإسلامية بأكبر دقة ممكنة.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“Differences don’t necessarily mean conflict, diversity is beautiful!”
― Sahar El-Nadi, Sandcastles & Snowmen

“ليست الديمقراطية إذن في أساسها عملية تسليم سلطات تقع بين طرفين معينين ، بين ملكِ وشعب مثلاً ، بل هي تكوين شعور وانفعالات ، ومقاييس ذاتية واجتماعية تشكل مجموعها الأسس التي تقوم عليها الديمقراطية في ضمير الشعب قبل أن ينص عليها أي دستور .”
― مالك بن نبي, تأملات

“يحكى ان قرويا ساذجا جاء الى بغداد لاول مرة في حياته . فمر بدكان لبيع الحلوى ، وقد انذهل القروي حين رأى تلك الحلوى اللذيذة مصفوفة في واجهة الدكان وصاحب الدكان جالس بجانبها ساكنا لا يأكل منها شيئا!
ظن القروي ان صاحب الدكان أعمى لا يرى هذه اللذات المتراكمة حوله.
ولكنه وجد بعد الفحص انه ليس أعمى. فاشتدت به الدهشة ! 
انه لا يستطيع ان يتصور إنسانا يجلس بجانب الحلوى ولا يأكل منها !
وسبب ذلك أن هذه الحلوى نادرة في القرية التي جاء منها. ولعله لم يأكل منها الا مرة واحدة في حياته وذلك في عرس ابن الشيخ حفظه الله.
ولا شك بأنه شعر بلذة قصوى حين أكل منها. وقد دفعته سذاجته الى الظن بأن الحلوى تعطي آكلها لذة قصوى كل ما أكل منها.
ولا فرق في ذلك بين من يأكل منها قليلا او كثيرا.
ولهذا وجدناه مذهولا عند رؤية رجل يجلس بجانب تلك الحلوى وهو ساكن وهادئ  لا يسيل لعابه كأنه جالس بجانب الطين والقصب!

وما حدث لهذا القروي الساذج يحدث لكل منا في وقت من الأوقات. فإذا رأى أحدنا فتاة جميلة تتغنج وهي تمشي بالشارع ظن أنه سيكون أسعد الناس اذا اقترن بها أو قبلها على اقل تقدير. انه يتوهم ذلك في الوقت الذي نجد فيه زوج الفتاة قد مل منها وكاد يلفظها لفظ النواة.

ان احدنا ينظر الى هذه الفتاة الجميلة بعين المنظار الذي نظر به ذلك القروي الى دكان الحلوى . لا يدري كيف سيكون حاله بعدما يقترن بتلك الفتاة ويراها بين يديه صباح ومساء ، حيث تصبح حينذاك كالبقلاوة التي يأكل منها القروي أكلاً شديدا متواليا يوما بعد يوم.

"لهذا ليس في هذه الدنيا شئ يمكن أن يتلذذ به الانسان تلذذا مستمرا. فكل لذة مهما كانت عظيمة تتناقص تدريجيا عند تعاطيها. وهذا ما يعرف في علم الاقتصاد الحديث بقانون (المنفعة المتناقصة)".
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― علي الوردي, مهزلة العقل البشري

“هذه الصورة القديمة جامعة لأفراد أسرتي
وهذه جامعة لأصدقاء العهد القديم
نظرت إليهما طويلا حتى غرقت في الذكريات
جميع الوجوه مشرقة ومطمئنة وتنطق بالحياة
ولا إشارة ولو خفيفة إلى ما يخبئه الغيب
وها هم قد رحلوا جميعا فلم يبق منهم أحد
فمن يستطيع أن يثبت أن السعادة كانت واقعا حيا، لا حلما ولا وهما”
― نجيب محفوظ, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“Thirty years after Apple went public, he reflected on what it was like to come into money suddenly:
I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned at Atari that I could be an okay engineer, so I always knew I could get by. I was voluntarily poor when I was in college and India, and I lived a pretty simple life even when I was working. So I went from fairly poor, which was wonderful, because I didn’t have to worry about money, to being incredibly rich, when I also didn’t have to worry about money.
I watched people at Apple who made a lot of money and felt they had to live differently. Some of them bought a Rolls-Royce and various houses, each with a house manager and then someone to manage the house managers. Their wives got plastic surgery and turned into these bizarre people. This was not how I wanted to live. It’s crazy. I made a promise to myself that I’m not going to let this money ruin my life.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe," Joanna Hoffman said. "It's a common trait in people who are charismatic and know how to manipulate people. Knowing that he can crush you makes you feel weakened and eager for his approval, so then he can elevate you and put you on a pedestal and own you.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste,”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Many people experience a range of emotions when finding out they have diabetes, including fear, sadness, guilt, and resentment. To deal with these feelings, they may deny the existence of the problem, trying not to think about it and hoping it will somehow just go away. They often continue to eat and behave just as they did before they received the diagnosis. They may forbid friends and family from commenting or admonishing them on their behavior. Not surprisingly, this behavior often leads to out-of-control blood sugars, and, depending on the length of the denial, damage to blood vessels or organs. When this damage comes to light, it is often accompanied by more fear, sadness, guilt, and resentment, which then makes the situation feel even more intolerable. This pattern is not uncommon in diabetes, and it is a cycle that keeps the person with diabetes stuck and unable to really manage their disease.”
― Jennifer Gregg, Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

“Jobs asked some questions about education, and Gates sketched out his vision of what schools in the future would be like, with students watching lectures and video lessons on their own while using the classroom time for discussions and problem solving. They agreed that computers had, so far, made surprisingly little impact on schools—far less than on other realms of society such as media and medicine and law. For that to change, Gates said, computers and mobile devices would have to focus on delivering more personalized lessons and providing motivational feedback.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business. That’s how you really make a contribution and add to the legacy of those who went before. You build a company that will still stand for something a generation or two from now. That’s what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That’s what I want Apple to be.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“I’m about fifty-fifty on believing in God,” he said. “For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye.” He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in an afterlife. “I like to think that something survives after you die,” he said. “It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures.” He fell silent for a very long time. “But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch,” he said. “Click! And you’re gone.” Then he paused again and smiled slightly. “Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“understanding how to take care of one’s diabetes does not necessarily mean that a person will take care of their diabetes. This is not because the person with diabetes is weak or a failure. Taking care of one’s diabetes requires lifestyle changes that are incredibly difficult to make and even more difficult to continue over time.”
― Jennifer Gregg, Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

“He said that he felt as though he was in a life-or-death war with these urges, and that they were winning because they were so much stronger than his willpower.”
― Jennifer Gregg, Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears and Making Changes for a Long and Healthy Life

“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user’s pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company’s product or service as the source of relief.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Shared documents aren’t shared understanding.”
― Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

“scope doesn’t creep; understanding grows. And”
― Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“الكتابة هي تفحص طويل لأعماق النفس، رحلة إلى أشد كهوف الوعي عتمة.”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
― Anais Nin

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Our romantic lives are fated to be sad and incomplete, because we are creatures driven by two essential desires which point powerfully in entirely opposing directions. Yet what is worse is our utopian refusal to countenance the divergence, our naive hope that a cost-free synchronisation might somehow be found: that the libertine might live for adventure while avoiding loneliness and chaos. Or that the married Romantic might unite sex with tenderness, and passion with routine.”
“Infatuations aren’t delusions. That way a person has of holding their head may truly indicate someone confident, wry and sensitive; they really may have the humour and intelligence implied by their eyes and the tenderness suggested by their mouth. The error of the infatuation is more subtle: a failure to keep in mind the central truth of human nature that everyone – not merely our current partners, in whose multiple failings we are such experts – but everyone will have something substantially and maddeningly wrong with them when we spend more time around them, something so wrong as to make a mockery of those initially rapturous feelings.
The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don’t yet know very well. The bet cure for love is to get to know them better.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love