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“But books were different. They had lots of blanks. Blanks between words and even between lines. I could squeeze myself in there and sit, or walk, or scribble down my thoughts. It didn’t matter if I had no idea what the words meant. Turning the pages was half the battle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
― Maya Angelou

“So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“You won’t manage, you’ll forget me; but if after a year, alas, more perhaps, a sad text, a death, or a rainy evening reminds you of me, you can offer me some altruism! I will never, never be able see you again . . . except in my soul, and this would require that we think about each other simultaneously. I’ll think about you forever so that my soul remains open to you endlessly in case you feel like entering it. But the visitor will keep me waiting for a long time! The November rains will have rotted the flowers on my grave, June will have burned them, and my soul will always be weeping impatiently. Ah! I hope that someday the sight of a keepsake, the recurrence of a birthday, the bent of your thoughts will guide your memory within the circle of my tenderness. It will then be as if I’ve heard you, perceived you, a magic spell will cover everything with flowers for your arrival. Think about the dead man. But, alas! Can I hope that death and your gravity will accomplish what life with its ardors, and our tears, and our merry times, and our lips were unable to achieve?”
― Marcel Proust, Pleasures and Days

“لا يُوجد أروع من إدراك الشخص منا لمدى أهميته لشخص آخر.. ورُغم تلك الأهمية التي نُدركها، ورُغم كل شيء نفعله من أجل هذا الشخص، بمنتهى البساطة يظل يقسو ويقسو مختبرًا قوة تحملنا، فقط بهذا الوقت يتسلل إلى أنفسنا رجاء ضعيف، لو.. فقط لو يفقدوننا، ونظل نراقبهم من سماء صافية أخرى وهم وحدهم.. معذبين دوننا.. لكنك بالنهاية ستكتشفين يا صديقتي أنكِ لم تفقدي إلا نفسك. ومهما بلغت أهميتك لهم فأنتِ في يومٍ ما حتمًا منسيَّة.”
― ضحى صلاح, فانيلا

“مع مرور الزمن، سوف تفهمين.. ما يدوم، يدوم، وما لا يدوم لا يدوم، الزمن كفيل بعلاج معظم الأشياء، وما لا يستطيع أن يعالجه الزمن.. يتعين عليك أن تعالجيه بنفسك.”
― هاروكي موراكامي, رقص... رقص... رقص...

“أحن إلى خبز أمي
وقهوة أمي ..
ولمسة أمي ..
وتكبُر في الطفولة
يوماً على صدر يوم
وأعشق عمري لأني
إذا مت،
أخجل من دمع أمي!”
― محمود درويش

“في داخلي شُرْفَةٌ
لا يَمُرُّ بها أَحَدٌ للتَّحيَّة.”
― محمود درويش

“نحن أحيانًا نحتاج إلى الدفء.. الكثير من الدفء، أحيانًا نحتاج فقط لمجرد الشعور بأننا محبوبون”
― ضحى صلاح, عزيزي السيد جي

“تُرى : حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما
هل ترى ؟
هي أشياءَ لا تُشترى.”
― أمل دنقل

“لا تصالح علي الدم .. حتي بدم!
لا تصالح! و لو قيل رأس برأس
أكل الرؤوس سواء؟
أقلب الغريب كقلب أخيك؟!
أعيناه عينا أخيك؟
و هل تساوي يد ... سيفها كان لك
بيد سيفها أثكلك؟”
― أمل دنقل, الأعمال الكاملة

“ربما ننفق كل العمر كي نثقب ثغرة..ليمر النور للأجيال مرة”
― أمل دنقل

“أبكي..لا أعرف لماذا بالضبط أبكي، لكن كل أحزان العمر تتجمع في هذه اللحظة وتدفعني للبكاء الذي كلما حاولت كبحه يجمح أكثر”
― محمد المخزنجي, لحظات غرق جزيرة الحوت

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“إن معظم الاشياء في العالم لا تأتي غير متوقعة إن فكر المرء فيها بعناية. فحتى الأشياء التي قد يظنها غير اعتيادية، هي في الواقع أشياء كان المقرر لها أن تحدث. وإن صادف المرء أحداثا غير اعتيادية،فهذا يعني غالبا انه لا يفكر في الأمور مليا.”
― كيونغ سوك شين, أرجوك اعتنِ بأمي

“Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every rapid current and helped me cross that water safely. I was happy that you were there. I came to tell you I was able to travel through my life because I could come to you when I was anxious, not when I was happy.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“إن صمت الموتى يجعل الباقين على قيد الحياة يصابون بالجنون.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“Look. If I touch you with this hand, I can remember touching you, but I can't prove I ever did. If reality is nothing more than what is in our mind...then what is the difference between this world and a dream?”
― Kaori Ozaki, Immortal Rain, Vol. 1

“His only possessions are the sky, the earth and a broken-down violin.
Even so... he only loved someone once in his lifetime.. and he's 624 years old.”
― Kaori Ozaki, Immortal Rain, Vol. 1

“I'm sorry. I'll stop. I'll forget everything about you. I won't chase you anymore!”
― Kaori Ozaki, Immortal Rain, Vol. 2

“ولعل ما تخشاه ليس بكائن , ولعل ما ترجوه سوف يكون
ولعل ما هونت ليس بهين , ولعل ما شدّدت سوف يهون”
― أبو العتاهية

“إن شرف الإنسان رجلًا أو امرأة هو الصدق؛ صدق التفكير وصدق الإحساس وصدق الأفعال. إن الإنسان الشريف هو الذي لا يعيش حياة مزدوجة؛ واحدة في العلانية وأخرى في الخفاء.”
― نوال السعداوي, الأنثى هي الأصل

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions”
― Michael Morpurgo, I Believe in Unicorns

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“طالب الحق يكفيه دليل، وصاحب الهوى لا يكفيه ألف دليل، الجاهل يُعلّم وصاحب الهوى ليس لنا عليه سبيل.”
― محمد ناصر الدين الألباني

“ما لي وللناس كم يلحونني سفها ... ديني لنفسي ودين الناس للنـــاس”
― الحلاج, الحلاج: الأعمال الكاملة

“وكانت لها نظرة عتاب مستمرة تُبقِيك منتبها كى لا تخطئ فى حقها”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة

“My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”
― Douglas Coupland