Ahmed > Ahmed's Quotes

“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“هناك احتمال آخر لتتويج مسعانا بغير الهزيمة، ما دمنا قررنا أننا لن نموت قبل أن نحاول أن نحيا ..”
― رضوى عاشور, أثقل من رضوى: مقاطع من سيرة ذاتية

“فلا تحدِّثني عن قدراتك الفائقة، وآمالك الكبرى، وخططك المستقبلية.. حدِّثني (فقط) عن إنجازك اليومي، فهو برهانُ آمالِك وعنوانُ نهاياتِك.”
― مشاري سعد الشثري, ارتياض العلوم

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“إذا لم تكن حاضر الذهن في الموقف فكن أينما أردت، المهم أنك لم تحضر الموقف، فكن أينما شئت، واقفاً للصلاة أم جالساً للخمرة، كلاهما واحد.”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“وما نيل المطالب بالتمني ... ولكن تؤخذ الدنيا غِلابا”
― أحمد شوقي

“بُلينا بقوم يظنون أن الله لم يهد سواهم.”
― ابن سينا

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“إن قيمة كل واحد منا على قدر ايمانه بنفسه”
― علي شريعتي, النباهة والاستحمار

“A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
― John Williams, Stoner

“لقد استغرقنا حياتنا في جزئيات صغيرة قضّينا فيها العمر على حساب قضايا هامة ومسائل كبرى فتخلَّف بنا الركب
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― سلمان بن فهد العودة

“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

“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

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

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“No experience is in itself a cause of our success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences—the so-called trauma—but instead we make out of them whatever suits our purposes. We are not determined by our experiences, but the meaning we give them is self-determining.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
― Virgil

“اﻹنسان كائن مُمِلّ.. لا يَمَلُّ من تكرار أخطائه”
― أيمن عبد الرحيم, تأسيس وعي المسلم المعاصر

“جربوا أن تكسروا الأبواب

أن تغسلوا أفكاركم، وتغسلوا الأثواب

يا أصدقائي:
...
جربوا أن تقرؤوا كتاب..

أن تكتبوا كتاب

أن تزرعوا الحروف، والرمان، والأعناب

أن تبحروا إلى بلاد الثلج والضباب

فالناس يجهلونكم.. في خارج السرداب

الناس يحسبونكم نوعاً من الذباب...”
― نزار قباني, هوامش على دفتر النكسة

“Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“سينهض من صميم اليأس جيلٌ
مريـدُ البـأسِ جبـارٌ عنيد
يقـايضُ ما يكون بما يُرَجَّى
ويَعطفُ مـا يُراد لما يُريد”
― محمد مهدي الجواهري

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
― Avicenna, Psikologi Ibn Sina

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“دواؤك فيك وما تُبصر وداؤك منك وما تَشعر
وَ تزعم أنك جرمٌ صغير،،وفيك انطوى العالمُ الأكبرُ”
― علي بن أبي طالب