Omnia > Omnia's Quotes

“It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
― Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“كلما أمعنت التفكير فيما كتبته طوال مساري، أرى طفلا يريد أن يقول ما لا يقوله الغير.”
― صنع الله إبراهيم

“.. وجال ببالي أن البحر امرأةٌ لعوب تمتع الرجال العائمين ، من دون خطية تحسب عليهم أو يحاسبون عليها .. البحر رحمةٌ من الله للمحرومين.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“وتذكرت العلامة ابن النفيس ، وحزنت عليه ، وعلينا. فقد قال لنا هذا الرجل ، وهو أيضا عالم وفقيه شافعي لم يكن في زمانه مثله ، قبل ثمانية قرون من الزمان ، هذه العبارة التي لم نلتفت أبدا إليها. وهي بالمناسبة ، ولكي لا يكذبني أحد ، موجودة في كتابه الذي لم يزل مخطوطا لم ينشر ، وعنوانه (شرح معاني القانون). تقول عبارة ابن النفيس ، التي أرجو أن نقرأها بهدوء:

وربما أوجب استقصاؤنا النظر عدولا عن المشهور والمتعارف ، فمن قرع سمعه خلاف ما عهده ، فلا يبادرنا بالإنكار ، فذلك طيش ، فرب شنع حق ومألوف محمود كاذب ، والحق حق في نفسه ، لا لقول الناس له ، ولنذكر دوما قولهم: إذا تساوت الأذهان والهمم ، فمتأخر كل صنعة خير من متقدمها.”
― يوسف زيدان, كلمات: التقاط الألماس من كلام الناس

“كل المهرطقين هنا ، كانوا مبجلين هناك!”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“الإنسان سؤال لا إجابة، وكل وجود إنساني احتشدت فيه الإجابات .. هو وجود ميت.”
― يوسف زيدان, ظل الأفعى

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses, he did not believe in islands, he did not believe in God. His father, the king, told him that such things did not exist. As there were no princesses or islands in his father's domains, and no sign of God, the young prince believed his father.

But then, one day, the prince ran away from his palace. He came to the next land. There, to his astonishment, from every coast he saw islands, and on these islands, strange and troubling creatures whom he dared not name. As he was searching for a boat, a man in full evening dress approached him along the shore.

Are those real islands?' asked the young prince.

Of course they are real islands,' said the man in evening dress.

And those strange and troubling creatures?'

They are all genuine and authentic princesses.'

Then God must exist!' cried the prince.

I am God,' replied the man in full evening dress, with a bow.

The young prince returned home as quickly as he could.

So you are back,' said the father, the king.

I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully.

The king was unmoved.

Neither real islands, nor real princesses, I have seen God,' said the prince reproachfully.

The king was unmoved.

Neither real islands, nor real princesses, nor a real God exist.'

I saw them!'

Tell me how God was dressed.'

God was in full evening dress.'

Were the sleeves of his coat rolled back?'

The prince remembered that they had been. The king smiled.

That is the uniform of a magician. You have been deceived.'

At this, the prince returned to the next land, and went to the same shore, where once again he came upon the man in full evening dress.

My father the king has told me who you are,' said the young prince indignantly. 'You deceived me last time, but not again. Now I know that those are not real islands and real princesses, because you are a magician.'

The man on the shore smiled.

It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your father's kingdom there are many islands and many princesses. But you are under your father's spell, so you cannot see them.'

The prince pensively returned home. When he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes.

Father, is it true that you are not a real king, but only a magician?'

The king smiled, and rolled back his sleeves.

Yes, my son, I am only a magician.'

Then the man on the shore was God.'

The man on the shore was another magician.'

I must know the real truth, the truth beyond magic.'

There is no truth beyond magic,' said the king.

The prince was full of sadness.

He said, 'I will kill myself.'

The king by magic caused death to appear. Death stood in the door and beckoned to the prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal but beautiful princesses.

Very well,' he said. 'I can bear it.'

You see, my son,' said the king, 'you too now begin to be a magician.”
― John Fowles

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
...
We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“أي علم هذا الذي لم يستطع حتى الآن أن يضع أصوات من نحب في أقراص ، أو زجاجة دواء نتناولها سرًّا ، عندما نصاب بوعكة عاطفية بدون أن يدري صاحبها كم نحن نحتاجه”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عابر سرير

“أحسد الأطفال الرضّع، لأنهم يملكون وحدهم حق الصراخ والقدرة عليه، قبل أن تروض الحياة حبالهم الصوتية، وتعلِّمهم الصمت”
― أحلام مستغانمي, ذاكرة الجسد

“لا أخاف الموت ..أخاف أن أموت قبل أن أحيا”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“كيف نضجر وللسماء هذه الزرقة ، وللأرض هذه الخضرة ، وللورد هذا الشذا ، وللقلب هذه القدرة العجيبة على الحب ، وللروح هذه الطاقة اللانهائية على الإيمان. كيف نضجر وفي الدنيا من نحبهم ، ومن نعجب بهم ، ومن يحبوننا ، ومن يعجبون بنا.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“لماذا نحب كاتباً بالذات؟
لا لأنّه يُبهرنا بتفوقه علينا، بل لأنّه يُدهشنا بتشابهه معنا. لأنه يبوح لنا بخطاياه ومخاوفه وأسراره، التي ليست سوى أسرارنا. والتي لانملك شجاعة الاعتراف بها، حتى لهذا الكاتب نفسه.”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“ثمة حزنٌ يصبح معه البكاء مبتذلاً، حتى لكأنه إهانة لمن نبكيه!
فلِمَ البكاء... مادام الذين يذهبون يأخذون دائماً مساحة منّا... دون أن يدركوا هناك حيث هم، أننا موتاً بعد آخر .. نصبح أولى منهم بالرثاء!”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“ليس هنالك أنصـــــاف خطــــــــــايا ولا انصــــــاف ملـــــذات لذلك لا يوجـــــــد مكان ثالث بين الجنـــــة والنــــــار فعلينا تفاديا للحســـــابات الخاطـئة أن ندخل إحداهما بجدارة.”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“لا أدري لماذا لا يطير العباد إلى ربِّهم على أجنحةٍ من الشوق بدل أن يُساقوا إليه بسياط من الرهبة ؟! إنَّ الجهل بالله وبدينه هو عِلَّةُ هذا الشعور البارد ، أو هذا الشعور النافر - بالتعبير الصحيح - ؛ مع أنَّ البشر لن يجدوا أبرَّ بهم ولا أحنَى عليهم من الله عز وجل”
― محمد الغزالي, جدد حياتك

“إذا أصبح العبد وأمسى وليس همه إلا الله وحده، تحمل الله سبحانه حوائجه كلها وحمل عنه ما أهمه. وإذا أصبح العبد وأمسى والدنيا همه ، حمله الله همومها وغمومها ووكلها إلى نفسه”
― ابن قيم الجوزية