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“Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.”
― Erich Fromm

“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.”
― Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”
― Norman Cousins

“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's
glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“باطلة هي الاعتقادات والتعاليم التي تجعل الانسان تعساً في حياته .
وكذابة هي العواطف التي تقوده ال اليأس والحزن والشقاء.”
― جبران خليل جبران, ‫الأرواح المتمردة‬

“سفك الدماء محرم, ولكن من حلله للأمير؟
سلب الأموال جريمة, ولكن من جعل سلب الأرواح فضيلة؟
خيانة النساء قبيحة, ولكن من صير رجم الأجساد جميلاً؟
أنقابل الشر بشر أعظم ونقول هذه هي الشريعة
ونقاتل الفساد بفساد أعم ونهتف هذا هو الناموس.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“دعني أسعد لحظة.
دع روحي تنعم بالهدوء هذه الليلة ،
فلربما أغفو ،
و في غفوتي أرى عالماً أكثر إشراقاً.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“روحي أبت أن أصرف العمر كله راكعة أمام صنم مخيف أقامته الأجيال المظلمة ودعته الشريعة.”
― جبران خليل جبران, ‫الأرواح المتمردة‬

“مرّت العصور إثر العصور، والإنسان بين قوتين مطلقتين: قوة تصعد بروحه إلى العلاء فيباركها، وقوة تهبط بجسده إلى الأرض فيلعنها؛ غير أنه لم يكن يدري معاني البركة، ولا معاني اللعنة، بل كان بينهما كشجرة بين صيف يكسوها، وشتاء يعرّيها، ولمّا بلغ الإنسان فجر المدنية، وهي الألفة البشرية، ظهرت العائلة، ثم القبيلة، فتفرقت الأعمال بتفرق الميول، وتباينت الصناعات بتباين المشارب والمنازع، فقام البعض من تلك القبيلة بحراثة الأرض، وآخرون ببناء المآوي، وغيرهم بنسج الملابس، وغيرهم بصهر المعادن.
في ذلك العهد البعيد، ظهرت الكهانة في الأرض، وكانت الحرفة الأولى التي ابتدعها الإنسان بدون حاجة حيوية، أو داعٍ طبيعي إليها.”
― جبران خليل جبران, مناجاة أرواح

“لم أكن أعلم بأنه يوجد مكان غير الدير يمكن أن أعيش فيه لأنهم علموني الكفر بكل شيء إلا معيشتهم, وسمموا نفسي بنقيع اليأس والاستسلام حتى ظننت بأن هذا العالم هو بحر أحزان وشقاء وأن الدير هو ميناء الخلاص.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“لو رأيت الكل يمشي عكسك لا تتردد، امشِ، حتى لو أصبحت وحيدًا، فالوحدة خيرٌ من أن تمشي عكس نفسك لإرضاء غيرك”
― جبران خليل جبران

“ألا ما أضجر روحي بكل ما هو موجود.
لن أحرِّك ساكناً لخلق عالم أو لمحو آخر.
لو كنت أملكُ الموت ما رضيتٌ بالحياة.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“ولعمري ان الحياة ظلام الا اذا صاحبها الحافز.
وكل حافز ضرير الا اذا اقترن بالمعرفه.
وكل معرفه هباء الا اذا رافقها العمل.
وكل عمل خواء الا اذا امتزج بالحب.
فاذا امتزج عملك بالحب فقد وصلت نفسك بنفسك و بالناس و بالله.”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Prophet

“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes; or, The Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness

“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin

“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room