Jay Sarhan > Jay's Quotes

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when it's morning again, they'll wash away
Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm
Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?”
― rick riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk.

[Letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp on 30 July 1810 denouncing the Christian doctrine of the Trinity]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other”
― Anton Chekhov

“عندما يُحرم الإنسان من الحياة التي يريدها ويؤمن بها، فلا خيار له إلا أن يتحول إلى خارج على القانون.”
― نيلسون مانديلا

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“أنا لا أريد أن أموت وأنا مخدرة. أريد أن أكون مفتوحة العينين وأنا أودع الدنيا. ولا أريد أن أودعها بإختياري. لم أجري الجراحة لأني لا أريد أن أفرط في يوم يمكن أن أعيشه. لن أفرط في هذه الهدية بإختياري.”
― بهاء طاهر, لم أعرف أن الطواويس تطير

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“خَالِطُوا النَّاسَ مُخَالَطَةً إِنْ مِتُّمْ مَعَهَا بَكَوْا عَلَيْكُمْ، وَإِنْ عِشْتُمْ حَنُّوا إِلَيْكُمْ.”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“استغنِ عمن شئت تكن نظيره، واحتج إلى من شئت تكن أسيره، وأحسن إلى من شئت تكن أميره.”
― علي بن أبي طالب

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

“سأصبر حتى يعجز الصبر عن صبري
سأصبر حتى ينظر الرحمن في أمري
سأصبر حتى يعلم الصبر
أني صبرت على شئٍ أمرّ من الصبر”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“صبراً على شدة الأيام إن لها ... عقبى وما الصبر إلا عند ذي حسب”
― علي بن أبي طالب, ديوان أمير المؤمنين الإمام علي بن أبي طالب

“وجدتك بعضي بل وجدتك كلّي ، حتّى كأنَّ شيئاً لو أصابك أصابني ، وحتّى كأنَّ الموت لو أتاك أتاني”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“أتغيب يا عود الأراك بثغرها *** ما خفت يا عود الأراك أراكا.. لو كنت أهلاً للقتال قتلتك*** ما فاز مني يا سواك سواكا”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“فكم لله من لطف خفي يدق خفاه عن فهم الذكي؛ وكم يسر أتى من بعد عسر ففرج كربة القلب الشجي؛ وكم أمر تساءُ به صباحاً فتأتيك المـسرة بالعشي؛ إذا ضاقت بك الأحوال يوماً فثق بالواحد الفرد العلي؛ ولا تجزع إذا ما ناب خطبٌ فكم لله من لطفي خفي”
― علي بن أبي طالب

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon