Omar Alabbasi > Omar's Quotes

“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. ”
― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

“Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”
― Eric Hoffer

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.”
― Eric Hoffer

“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day; we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“With Your sweet Soul, this soul of mine
has merged as water does with wine.
Who can part the water from the wine,
or me from You when we combine?
You have become my greater self;
how can smallness limit me?
You’ve taken on my being,
how shall I not take on Yours?
Forever, You have claimed me
that forever I may know You’re mine.”
― Rumi

“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ”
― Otto von Bismarck

“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from
Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“السبب في شقاء الانسان أنه دائما يزهد في سعادة يومه ويلهو عنها بما يتطلع إليه من سعادة غده، فإذا جاء غده اعتقد أن امسه كان خيرا من يومه، فهو لاينفك شقيا في حاضره وماضيه.”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي, النظرات

“the only thing more terrifying than blindness is being the only one who can see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“إن للقلب أربع لغات يتكلم بها : واحدة منهن بالألوان في الوجه ، والثانية بالدلال في الجسم ، والثالثة في النظر بالمعاني ، والأخيرة وهي أسهلهنّ وأبلغهنّ يتكلم بكل ذلك في ابتسامة .”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“و "أما قبل" ... فقد رأيت عندك الفجر وأخذت منه نهاراً أحمله في روحي لا يظلم أبداً !
وخالطت عندك الربيع وانتزعت منه حديقة خالدة النضرة في نفسي لا تذبل أبداً !
وجالست عندك الشباب وترك في قلبي من لحظاته ما لا يهرم أبداً !
واجتمعت عندك بالحب وكشف لي عن مخلوقات الكون الشعري الذي تملؤه ذاتي لا ينقص أبداً !
و رأيتك يا فجري وربيعي وشبابي وحبي .. فلن أنساك أبداً !!
و "أما قبل" ..... !!!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“ولا تزال الجَنَّةُ مع الطفل، حتّى إذا كبُر قيل له كما قيل لآدم: اهبط منها..!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“إن الله لا يُمسك عنّا فضله إلا حين نطلب ما ليس لنا أو ما لسنا له .”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, حديث القمر

“يا صديقي؛ إنَّ الله رحيم، و من رحمته أنه أخفى القلب و أخفى بواعثه ليظلَّ كلُّ إنسان مخبوءًا عن كلِّ إنسان؛ فدعني مخبوءًا عنك!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, وحي القلم

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
― Herbert Bayard Swope

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.”
― Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics