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“اعمل الخير وارميه في البحر بشرط أن يراك أحدهم وأنت تفعل ذلك عندها سيخبر الآخرين أنك لا تفعل الخير فقط بل وترميه في البحر أيضا !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق , قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Franz Kafka, Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition

“My flower is somewhere out there...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining "punishment" and "being supposed to punish" hurts it, arouses fear in it. "Is it not enough to render him undangerous? Why still punish?
Punishing itself is terrible." With this question, herd morality, the morality of timidity, draws its ultimate consequence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened... And you think that is not important!"
He could not say anything more. His words were choked by sobbing.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.”
― Earl Nightingale, The Strangest Secret

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
― Alexander The Great