Marwa Chrayet > Marwa's Quotes

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”
― Malcolm X

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“إن سرعة التصديق وسرعة الإنكار كلاهما يدلان على سذاجة غير محمودة”
― علي الوردي

“ينبغي أن نميز بين المتعلم والمثقف، فالمتعلم هو من تعلم أموراً لم تخرج عن نطاق الإطار الفكري الذي اعتاد عليه منذ صغره. فهو لم يزدد من العلم إلا مازاد في تعصبه وضيّق في مجال نظره. هو قد آمن برأي من الآراء أو مذهب من المذاهب فأخذ يسعى وراء المعلومات التي تؤيده في رأيه وتحرّضه على الكفاح في سبيله. أما المثقف فهو يمتاز بمرونة رأيه وباستعداده لتلقي كل فكرة جديدة وللتأمل فيها ولتملي وجه الصواب منها.”
― علي الوردي, خوارق اللاشعور: أو أسرار الشخصية الناجحة

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”
― Malcolm X

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“كان القوس مشدوداً جداً حتى أنني كنت أسمع تمزق الحبل الممدود بين صدغيَّ في داخلي، لقد وصل إلى حد الانقطاع.
صدغان يرنان، والأعصاب في رقبتي تخفق، أحسست بقواي تتسرب من دماغي وحقوي ورسغي - وتتلاشى. ورحت أفكر مع نفسي، اذن فهكذا هو الموت- هادىء وشفوق، شبيه بدخولك إلى حمام دافىء وقطع شرايينك.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“طالما رأيناهم يسخرون من فكرة في هذا اليوم ثم يقدّسونها غداً”
― علي الوردي, خوارق اللاشعور: أو أسرار الشخصية الناجحة

“اذا وجدت نفسك تريد الكلام وكان الدافع الحصول على تقدير الحاضرين أو التقرّب لأصحاب النفوذ  فاعلم أنك فاشل عاجلاً أو آجلاً.”
― علي الوردي, خوارق اللاشعور: أو أسرار الشخصية الناجحة

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“يمكن تلخيص أسلوبي في التدريس على النحو التالي: لا يمكن للمادة أن تكون مفيدة ما لم تكن مشوقة , ولا يمكن أن تكون مشوقة ما لم تكن مبسطة , ولا يمكن أن تكون مفيدة ومشوّقة ومبسطة مالم يبذل المعلم أضعاف الجهد الذي يبذله الطالب”
― غازي بن عبد الرحمن القصيبي, حياة في الإدارة

“كنت ولا أزال من المؤمنين بحرية الإرادة المحكومة بقدر الله وكنت ولا أزال أرى أن على المرأ أن يخطط لمستقبله بكل ما يملك من قوة وأن يعرف في الوقت نفسه أن إرادة الله لا تخطيطه هي التي سترسم مسار هذا المستقبل”
― غازي بن عبد الرحمن القصيبي, حياة في الإدارة

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.”
― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”
― Carl Jung

“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
― J. Richard Lessor

“If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?”
― Alphonse de Lamartine, History of Turkey

“ربما يموت الانسان عندما يتوقف دماغه , وأقصد عندما يتوقف دماغة عن استيعا ب أفكار جديدة”
― جورج أورويل, Coming up for Air

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“لقد غيرت القراءة مجرى حياتي تغييراً جذرياً ولم أكن أهدف من ورائها الى كسب أية شهادات لتحسين مركزي وانما كنت اريد ان احيا فكريا.”
― Malcolm X

“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.”
― Malcolm X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power