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“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Guts

“What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in your hand
Ah, what then?”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Poems

“أتمنى أن أبكي و أرتجف , التصق بواحد من الكبار , لكن الحقيقة القاسية هي أنك الكبار! .. أنت من يجب أن يمنح القوة و الأمن للآخرين!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“إننا نتمزق بلا سبب حقيقي، وذاك جوهر المأساة”
― نجيب محفوظ

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Truth is one, paths are many.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“يا باب يا مقفول ... إمتي الدخول
صبرت ياما و اللي يصبر ينول
دقيت سنين ... و الرد يرجع لي : مين ؟
لو كنت عارف مين أنا كنت أقول

عجبي !”
― صلاح جاهين

“وكان أعجب ما وقع له أنه اكتشف عند صلاة الصبح أنه لم يكن يفقه معنى للفاتحة! حقا لم ينقطع يوما عن الصلاة، ولكنه كان يؤديها كما يحلق ذقنه، وكما يعقد رباط عنقه. بفكر مشغول بأمر أو بآخر. ـ”
― نجيب محفوظ, دنيا الله

“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“التواضع ليس صفة متواضعة، بل هو صورة متقدمة من الغرور. التواضع يقتدي أن تكون في مكانه مرتفعة وتهبط بنفسك عمدًا لمستوى من هم أدنى، كرمًا منك، لا أن تعتبر نفسك في هذا المستوى. كي تكون متواضعًا يجب أن تعتبر نفسك فوق مستوى الآخرين ابتداءً، كن متواضعًا حين ذاك.”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, عناق عند جسر بروكلين

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful...and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“How embarrassing to be human.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I have acid rain in my brain and it's killing the flowers in my heart.”
― Marianna Page

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
― chuck palahniuk

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
― David Lynch

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn't find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force--a wild pain and decay--also accompanies everything.”
― David Lynch

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas