Ezdehar > Ezdehar's Quotes

“هكذا كانت حيوية عمرفيما يريده وفيما يزهد فيه. لم تكن قلة الرغبة في زخارف الدنيا هي مقياس حيويته العظمى وانماكان مقياس تلك الحيوبة عظم الرغبة في الاصلاح والتقويم, وفي اجراء ما ينبغي ان يجرى. غير مبال ما يكلفه ذلك من جهد تضائل دونه جهود الالوف من الموكلين بمتاع الاجساد...”
― عبقرية عمر - عباس محمود العقاد

“Whenever she steps out into the world, that woman often becomes an invisible being she gets shoved around and stepped on… and when she gets mixed amongst the crowd… I don’t thin she is visible to other people that’s why that woman hides in her room, her small room feels cozy to her like a cage feels cozy to a bird with a broken wing. And in that room … she can breathe freely. She’s never dreamed of the world outside, or missed the world out there. at least until now… at least until now…”
― Go Dok Mi

“لا يوجد شخص معاق, بل يوجد مجتمع يعيق.”
― احمد الشقيري

“People who think that happiness is something that’s always within their reach, I wonder how happy they must really be? That woman always gets nervous when she finds herself to be too happy. To that woman, happiness is like a blow bubbles we used to play with when we were little. The moment she touches the bubbles carrying the light of rainbow around her, they burst. In front of happiness, that woman gives up before even reaching out her hand.”
― Go Dok Mi

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

“أشقَى الولاة مَن شَقيت بِه رعِيَّتُه .”
― عمر بن الخطاب

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

“لو كان لي الخيار بان اختار لما كنت غير بائع للازهار فان فاتني الربح لم يفوتني العطر”
― عمر بن الخطاب

“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

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

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“نحن لا نكافئ الآخرين بغفراننا ذنوبهم، نحن نكافئ أنفسنا، ونتطهر من الداخل.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“الغياب شكل من أشكال الحضور، يغيب البعض وهم حاضرون في أذهاننا أكثر من وقت حضورهم في حياتنا”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“كلما شعرت بالحاجة إلى شخص يحدثني .. فتحت كتابًا ..”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

“أمس اتصلت بالأمل!
قلت له: هل ممكن
أن يخرج العطر لنا من الفسيخ والبصل؟
قال: أجل.
قلت: وهل يمكن أن تشعَل النار بالبلل؟
قال: أجل.
قلت: وهل من الحنظل يمكن تقطير العسل؟
قال: نعم..
قلت: وهل يمكن وضع الأرض في جيب زحل؟
قال: نعم، بلى، أجل...
فكل شيء محتمل.
قلت: إذن حكام العرب سيشعرون يوما بالخجل؟
قال: ابصق على وجهي
إذا هذا حصل.”
― أحمد مطر

“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis