Rabah Mamdouh > Rabah's Quotes

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“The best mirror is an old friend.”
― George Herbert

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“الصداقة باختصار هي إحدى إنجازاتنا الشخصية في هذه الحياة ..”
― أروى خميّس, على الأرجوحة..تتناثر الأسرار

“It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.”
― Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince

“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”
― Jim Rohn

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.”
― Pat Barker

“...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.”
― Kim Harrison