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“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“لا قيام لحكم طاغية إلا على الأذهان الممسوخة والأفكار الرائدة البلهاء، والحجر على ذوي الرأي أن ينظروا للأمور إلا من الزاوية التي يراها لهم الطاغية.”
― محمد الغزالي

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

“مِن السقوطِ أن يُسَخِّرَ المَرْءُ مواهبَه العظيمة من أجْلِ غايةٍ تافهة”
― محمد الغزالي

“مازلت أؤكد أن العمل الصعب هو تغيير الشعوب, أما تغيير الحكومات فإنه يقع تلقائياً عندما تريد الشعوب ذلك”
― محمد الغزالي, الطريق من هنا

“أحيانا اللطف مع الناس جريمة ضد النفس”
― حسين البرغوثي, الضوء الأزرق

“لا يستيقظ في العزلة إلا ما هو كامن فينا أصلًا”
― حسين البرغوثي, سأكون بين اللوز

“تشبه هذا الفقير الهندي الذي جاء إلى دير بوذي بحثاً عن إنارة روحه .. وقعد يروي للراهب عن ماضيه , وعذابه , وذكرياته , وعن حاجته للتنوير , ويروي , ويروي , ويروي ,والراهب يصغي ويصبّ الشاي في فنجان على الطاولة . طفح الفنجان , وسال الشاي على الخشب والأرض , والراهب يصبّ , والرجل يروي , ويروي , ويروي , إلى حد الملل , وأخيراً انتبه فقال للراهب : طفح الشاي من الفنجان , لماذا تواصل الصبّ فيه ؟ فردّ الراهب : ذهنك يشبه هذا الفنجان , مليء , أفرغه مما فيه , كي أصبّ لك شاياً جديداَ”
― حسين البرغوثي, الضوء الأزرق

“من خاف الله أخاف الله منه كل شيء، ومن خاف الناس أخافه الله من كل شيء.”
― الحسن البصري

“من أحب أن يعرف ما هو فليعرض نفسه على القرآن”
― الحسن البصري

“ما بكى عبد إلا شهد عليه قلبه بالصدق أو الكذب”
― الحسن البصري

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

“If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.”
― Sun Tzu

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
― Sun Tzu

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
― Vladimir Lenin