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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
― Albert Camus

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything.”
― Chase Brooks, Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance

“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
― L.J. Smith, Nightfall

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“لم نفترق . لكننا لن نلتقي أَبداً”
― محمود درويش

“ما أصاب الإسلام في عصرنا هذا و في العصور التي سبقته لا يسأل عنه أعداؤه قدر ما يسأل عنه أبناؤه”
― محمد الغزالي, من معالم الحق في كفاحنا الإسلامي الحديث

“أنا لست صوفيا ولا سلفيا ولا وهابيا ولا من الإخوان ولا من غيرهم من الجماعات ... أنا مسلم. وأتعامل مع كل من يقول أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمداً رسول الله على أنه مسلم .. وكفانا تنابذاً بالألقاب!.”
― أحمد الشقيري

“انا زى زيـــــــــك ....معنديش حاجه تمنعنى من دخول جهنم
غير قوله
يــــــــــــــا رب”
― أحمد العايدي, العشق السادي

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
― Walter Kirn, Mission to America

“أحيانا اللطف مع الناس جريمة ضد النفس”
― حسين البرغوثي, الضوء الأزرق

“اكسب نفسك وحب حد بيكرهك.
اكسب نفسك تانى و حب حد بتكرهه .
اكسب نفسك تانى و انسى حد لسه بتحبه من غير م تكرهه .”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant