Sawsan Al > Sawsan's Quotes

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
― Jim Morrison

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
― Albert Einstein

“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.”
― Jeff thomas

“He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“نحن نتكلم عندما توصد أمامنا أبواب السلام عن افكارنا ، وعندما نعجز عن الوصول لحالة السكون في وحدة قلوبنا ، نتحول لنستولي على شفاهنا ، فالصوت يلهينا ويسلينا ، وفي الكثير من كلامنا يكاد فكرنا ينفجر من الألم والكآبة ، لأن الفكر طائر من طيور الفضاء ن يمكنه ان يبسط جناحيه في قفص الألفاظ ، ولكنه لا يستطيع أن يطير”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Prophet

“Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“ربنا وإلهنا ،،إننا لا نستطيع أن نلتمس منك حاجة ،، لأنك تعرف حاجتنا قبل أن تولد في أعماقنا ،، أنت حاجتنا ،، وكلما زدتنا من ذاتك زدتنا من كل شئ”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Prophet

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“أليسَ الهيابُ من الظمأ وبئركَ مليئةُ بالماء , هو ذلك الظمأ الذي لن يرويه شيء؟”
― جبران خليل جبران, النبي

“What is fear of need but need itself?”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“It's beauty that captures your attention, personality which captures your heart...”
― Roy R. Gilson

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”
― Robert Frost

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

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”
― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam