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“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan

“قل لي وسوف أنسى … أرني ولعلي أتذكر … أشركني وسوف أفهم”
― كونفوشيوس

“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other—in other words, they’re using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other’s support.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action;”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“نحب الحياة غداً
عندما يصل الغد سوف نحب الحياة
كما هي، عادية ماكرة
رمادية أو ملونة،
لا قيامة فيها ولا آخرة.
وإن كان لابد من فرح
فليكن
خفيفاً على القلب والخاصرة !
فلا يلدغ المؤمن المتمرن
من فرح ... مرتين!”
― محمود درويش Mahmoud Darwish

“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
and they strangers to you
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran

“إذا رضيت فعبّر عن رضاك، لا تصطنع نصف رضا،
وإذا رفضت.. فعبّر عن رفضك، لأن نصف الرفض قبول..
النصف هو حياة لم تعشها، وهو كلمة لم تقلها،
وهو ابتسامة أجّلتها، وهو حب لم تصل إليه،
وهو صداقة لم تعرفها..

النصف هو ما يجعلك غريباً عن أقرب الناس إليك،
وهو ما يجعل أقرب الناس إليك غرباء عنك،
النصف هو أن تصل وأن لاتصل، أن تعمل وأن لا تعمل،
أن تغيب وأن تحضر..

النصف هو أنت، عندما لا تكون أنت.. لأنك لم تعرف من أنت.
النصف هو أن لا تعرف من أنت ..
ومن تحب ليس نصفك الآخر.. هو أنت في مكان آخر في الوقت نفسه!!..

نصف شربة لن تروي ظمأك،
ونصف وجبة لن تشبع جوعك،
نصف طريق لن يوصلك إلى أي مكان،
ونصف فكرة لن تعطي لك نتيجة..
النصف هو لحظة عجزك وأنت لست بعاجز..
لأنك لست نصف إنسان.
أنت إنسان.. وجدت كي تعيش الحياة،
وليس كي تعيش نصف حياة!”
― جبران خليل جبران

“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be otherwise; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; or if you did wish to, even then you would do nothing; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming—in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you—means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”
― Marcus Aurelius Antonius

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“يحدث أحيانا
أن تصاب بالاكتئاب
فتشعر بتفاهة الأحداث حولك
وتزهد بكل طقوس الحياة المحيطة بك
وتفقد الأشياء قيمتها وأهميتها لديك
ويخيل إليك أن الحياة توقفت عن النبض
وتتساوى لديك الأمكنة والأوقات
وتبقى وحيدا ....وتبقى بعيدا
لاشيء معك سوى إحساسك المقيت
وتفشل كل محاولاتهم لانتزاعك من وحدتك
وقد تبقى في دائرة الاكتئاب فترة طويلة
وقد ...تشرق شمس الأمل فجأة
فتشرق معها قابليتك للحياة من جديد !”
― شهرزاد الخليج