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“- إن ربًا كفاك بالأمس ماكان
. . سيكفيك قي غد مايكون”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي

“أرفع الناس قدراً من لا يرى قدره، وأكثرهم فضلاً من لا يرى فضله”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?”
― Inoue Takehiko

“There is no light for those who do not know darkness.”
― Takehiko Inoue

“Preoccupied with a single leaf... you won't see the tree. Preoccupied with a single tree... you'll miss the entire forest. Don't be preoccupied with a single spot. See everything in it's entirety... effortlessly. That is what it means to truly "see.”
― Takehiko Inoue

“Life has no value!'
Truly right. It has no value.
If you think only of yourself,
it has no value.
'Why was I born?'
The reason you are here...
is because someone supported your life.

'Why was I born? For what purpose?'
The reason you are here...
is to support lives.

If you don't go against how life should be...
You're already completely...
Free.”
― Takehiko Inoue, Vagabond, Volume 37

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“أتهزأ بالدعاء و تزدريه... و ما تدري بم صنع الدعاء
سهام الليل لا تخطئ و لكن... لها أمد و للأمد انقضاء
فيمسكها إذا ما شاء ربي... و يرسلها إذا نفذ القضاء”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي

“Whatever happens, happens such as you are either formed by nature able to bear it, or not able to bear it. If such as you are by nature form’d able to bear, bear it and fret not: But if such as you are not naturally able to bear, don’t fret; for when it has consum’d you, itself will perish. Remember, however, you are by nature form’d able to bear whatever it is in the power of your own opinion to make supportable or tolerable, according as you conceive it advantageous, or your duty, to do so.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Invincible is just a word”
― Takehiko Inoue , Vagabond, Vol. 8

“Don't ever give up hope until the very last moment. If you give up, the game is already over.”
― Takehiko Inoue, Slam Dunk, Vol. 1

“فلا النفس يسليها البعاد فتنثني ... و لا هي عما لا تنال تطيب”
― مجنون ليلى, ديوان مجنون ليلى

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“كلُّ العداوةِ قد تُرْجى اماتتها
إلاَّ عداوةَ من عَادَاكَ بالحَسَدِ”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي, ديوان الإمام الشافعي

“وقالوا لو تشاء سلوت عنها
فقلتُ ئهمْ فانِّي لا أشَاءُ
وكيف وحبُّها عَلِقٌ بقلْبي
كما عَلِقَتْ بِأرْشِيَة ٍ دِلاءُ
لها حب تنشأ في فؤادي
فليس له-وإنْ زُجِرَ- انتِهاءُ”
― قيس بن الملوح, ديوان قيس بن الملوح: مجنون ليلى

“ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ
وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“إذا رأيت نيوب الليث بارزة
..فلا تظُنن أن الليث يبتسمُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“الخَيْلُ وَاللّيْلُ وَالبَيْداءُ تَعرِفُني وَالسّيفُ وَالرّمحُ والقرْطاسُ وَالقَلَمُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena