Yasmin Mohamed > Yasmin's Quotes

“أكثر الناس ينتظرون شيئاً ما ليتغيروا، وآخرون يتغيرون عندما تحدث لهم صدمة، أو تتغير أدوارهم في الحياة. لكن أعظم التغيير هو التغير المقصود الواعي النابع من التأمل والإرادة والشعور بالمسؤولية”
― طارق السويدان

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“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

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.”
― Kay Ryan, Say Uncle

“أسأل كثيرا لماذا أشعر بالسعادة فقط عندما أتكلم إلي نفسى, و عرفت بعد فترة أن سبب الراحة هو كونى الشخص الوحيد الذى تريحنى إجاباته”
― عمر طاهر, جر ناعم

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“Stop thinking about life and choose to live it”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them”
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

“مين المسؤول عن جيل كامل مقتنع إنه مش مسؤول؟ جيل مقتنع إن اللي جنبه دائماً هو المسؤول؟ أصبح محدش بيغير خالص؟ كل واحد بيستخدم كل فِكرُه و وقته و ذكائه إنه يلبس اللي جنبه إنه المسؤول، ده يقول "إنت المسؤول عن إن الشارع مافيهوش صندوق زبالة فعشان كده أنا رميت على الأرض"، فترد لي سعادتك: "لأ لما حطينا صندوق الزبالة لقينا الناس كلها برضه بترمي في الشارع عشان دي مش ثقافتها"، قال لك: "ما هو علشان الشارع كله زبالة فماجتش عليّ أنا مش هاوسّخ حاجة، و بعدين إنت ماحاولتش تغيّر ثقافتي"، فقال لك: "ما هو علشان كلكم ما بترموش في صندوق الزبالة، فأصبح الشارع كله زبالة كبيرة فهاغير ثقافتك إزاي و إنت أصلاً زبالة؟" فالثاني قاله: "ما أنا بادور على صندوق زبالتك بالساعة في أرقى الأحياء، فبلاقيها أصعب ما ألاقي فرع سيلانتروا أو ماكدونالدز" و البيضة عند الفرخة، و الفرخة عايزة ديك و الديك عايز فرخة، و الفرخة بتيجي من البيضة”
― عمرو سلامة , رسائل ترد للمرسل

“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I think I deserve something beautiful.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige".”
― Christopher Priest, The Prestige

“لا سبيل لمعرفة المكان المطلق لأي شيء، في أحسن الأحوال نقدّر موضعه نسبةً إلى كذا وكذا، يستحيل ذلك لأن "كذا وكذا" في حالة حركة أيضاً! هناك استثناء واحد ندرك فيه الحركة المطلقة: اللحظة التي تفقد الحركة انتظامها فتتسارع/تتباطأ، ندرك أن القطار الذي نركبه بالفعل متحرك! قد يتضاعف الكون حولنا لعشرات وملايين الأضعاف لكننا لن نشعر بذلك لأن النسب الحجمية تظل محفوظة ولأن نسبة كل حركة للحركة بجوارها ثابتة.”
― مصطفى محمود, أينشتين والنسبية