Quotes - Aamena Amin zayed (Cairo, 11, Egypt) Showing 1-17 of 17

#1

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: dance, music

10972 likes

#2

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
― Mark Twain

tags: happiness

2790 likes

#3

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

tags: innocence

2538 likes

#4

“Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;
And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

tags: mortality

76 likes

#5

“Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

tags: madness, misattributed-to-alexander-pope, partitions, wits

66 likes

#6

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: inspirational

795 likes

#7

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: hell, life

2604 likes

#8

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: introspection, solitude

2188 likes

#9

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”
― Aldous Huxley

904 likes

#10

“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

2280 likes

#11

“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
― William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957

tags: life, persistence, suffering

151 likes

#12

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

tags: betrayal, disappointment

3578 likes

#13

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

9476 likes

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