Ahmed Abdeen > Ahmed's Quotes

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”
― Normandi Ellis, Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.”
― Gustavo Petro

“I want to live until I learn everything -absolutely everything- then just die... Or wait, no; I want to still live to teach it to other people"

"أنا عايز أعيش لحد ما أتعلم كل حاجة على الإطلاق، وبعد كدا أموت عادي ... أو أستنى، لأ، عايز أفضل عايش عشان أعلمها لناس تانية”
― Mahmoud Mahdaly

“If the first decade of the 21st century can be summarized in one scene, It will definitely be the collision of the two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center (New York) September 11, 2001, the scene represents the collision of the «mentality of the 7th century» that uses the «products of modernity» to attack modernity itself, in the 21st century within the heart of the city that is the capital of the modern world.
لو ممكن تلخيص العقد الأول من القرن الحادي و العشرين في مشهد واحد، هيبقى بكل تأكيد مشهد اصطدام الطائرتين ببرجي مركز التجارة العالمي في (نيويورك) 11 سبتمبر 2001، مشهد يمثل تصادم عقلية القرن السابع التي تستخدم منتجات الحداثة للهجوم عليها مع القرن الحادي و العشرين في قلب مدينة هي عاصمة العالم المعاصر.”
― Mustafa Badr

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”
― Malcolm X

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams… that is being naked.”
― Rob Bell

“But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful. Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
― George Orwell

“I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“الحل الوحيد للمشاكل النفسية هو: لا تكن عاطلاً… لا تكن وحيداً”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“You've got to learn to leave the table
When love's no longer being served".”
― nina simone

“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
― Groucho Marx

“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
― Grace Murray Hopper

“Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
― Shimon Peres

“5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.”
― Nilesh jain

“انتهت صداقتنا ليس بمشاجرة أو موقف عنيف، وإنما هي حالة من القرف والملل التدريجي ... ما ينتهي ببطء لا يعود بسرعة .. لا يعود أبدًا ..!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”
― Lawrence Durrell

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two--is gone.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion