Haifa Alsaif > Haifa's Quotes

Showing 1-22 of 22
sort by

  • #1
    Daniel Keyes
    “I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
    Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

  • #2
    Erich Fromm
    “A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his sanity. He cannot help suffering, even though he can experience moments of joy and clarity that are absent in the life of his "normal" contemporaries. Not rarely will he suffer from neurosis that results from the situation of a sane man living in an insane society, rather than that of the more conventional neurosis of a sick man trying to adapt himself to a sick society. In the process of going further in his analysis, i.e. of growing to greater independence and productivity,his neurotic symptoms will cure themselves.”
    Erich fromm, The Art of Being

  • #3
    Abraham H. Maslow
    “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
    Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being

  • #4
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer , Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

  • #5
    Daniel Kahneman
    “A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
    Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • #6
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #7
    Sigmund Freud
    “Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #8
    Clive James
    “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
    Clive James

  • #9
    Frantz Fanon
    “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
    Frantz Fanon

  • #10
    Criss Jami
    “When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
    Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

  • #11
    Asa Don Brown
    “Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
    Dr. Asa Don Brown

  • #12
    Louis Yako
    “Although many of us are struggling against the same oppressive powers worldwide, we are all made to think of each other as enemies rather than allies in this global struggle. We have been separated from each other by the most misleading notion that some of us are citizens of the “First World”, while others are sub-humans from the “Third World”. I dreamed of a time when we all realize that we live in one world not three worlds as politicians and warmongers want us to believe.”
    Louis Yako

  • #13
    “Butterfly Kisses

    Aged imperfections
    stitched upon my face
    years and years of wisdom
    earned by His holy grace.
    Quiet solitude in a humble home
    all the family scattered now
    like nomads do they roam.
    Then a gift
    sent from above
    a memory
    pure and tangible
    wrapped in innocence and
    unquestioning love.
    A butterfly kiss
    lands gently upon my cheek
    from an unseen child
    a kiss most sweet.
    Heaven grants grace
    and tears follow
    as youth revisits
    this empty hollow.”
    Muse, Enigmatic Evolution

  • #14
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

  • #15
    Oliver Sacks
    “What could we do? What should we do? 'There are no prescriptions,' Luria wrote, 'in a case like this. Do whatever your ingenuity and your heart suggest. There is little or no hope of any recovery in his memory. But a man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral being - matters of which neuropsychology cannot speak. And it is here, beyond the realm of an impersonal psychology, that you may find ways to touch him, and change him. [...] Neuropsychologically, there is little or nothing you can do; but in the realm of the Individual, there may be much you can do.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

  • #16
    Françoise Gilot
    “لم يعد شكلي الخارجي خارقا. ومن جانب اخر لم اكن اراه معيبا. لم اخش اي شيء, موضوعية ومجردة في كل احكامي وحرة بوداعة من مختلف الاوهام التي تنعم بها قلة التجربة على الشباب. باختصار رأيت نفسي فيلسوفة محنكة متنكرة بشكل فتاة صغيرة”
    Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

  • #17
    Françoise Gilot
    “حينما اعمل اترك جسدي وراء الباب مثلما يخلع المسلمون احذيتهم قبل الدخول الى المسجد”
    Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

  • #18
    Françoise Gilot
    “As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it.”
    Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

  • #19
    Carl R. Rogers
    “In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
    Carl R. Rogers

  • #20
    Asa Don Brown
    “All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.”
    Asa Don Brown

  • #21
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
    If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #22
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart



Rss