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“يأسك وصبرك بين ايديك وانت حر
تيأس ما تيأس الحياة راح تمر
أنا دقت من دة ومن دة وعجبي لقيت
الصبر مر وبرضه اليأس مر

عجبي”
― صلاح جاهين

“You had your heart broken much?”

He paused. “Of course. Everyone does. Part of life.”

“Tell me her name. I’ll kick her ass. I don’t want anyone hurting you.”

He rested his face against my hair, his tone even and gentle when he spoke. “You’re wondrous and powerful and gifted, but even you can’t save me from hurting. No one can do that for anyone. I can make things perfect in the fictions I create, but the real world isn’t so kind. That’s just how it is. And anyway, for every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.”

“Like what?”

“Like little blonde nieces. And royalty checks. And you.”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus on Top

“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don't hear the water. It was terrible at first. We couldn't stand to be in the house for more than a few hours at a time. The first two weeks were filled with nights of intermittent sleep and quarreling for the sake of being heard over the water. We fought so much just to remind ourselves that we were in love, and not in hate. But the next weeks were a little better. It was possible to sleep a few good hours each night and eat in only mild discomfort. [We] still cursed the water, but less frequently, and with less fury. Her attacks on me also quieted. It's your fault, she would say. You wanted to live here. Life continued, as life continues, and time passed, as time passes, and after a little more than two months: Do you hear that? I asked her one of the rare mornings we sat at the table together. Hear it? I put down my coffee and rose from my chair. You hear that thing? What thing? she asked. Exactly! I said, running outside to pump my fist at the waterfall. Exactly! We danced, throwing handfuls of water in the air, hearing nothing at all. We alternated hugs of forgiveness and shouts of human triumph at the water. Who wins the day? Who wins the day, waterfall? We do! We do! And this is what living next to a waterfall is like. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.”
― Charles de Lint, Someplace to Be Flying

“Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt.”
― Julia Green, Breathing Underwater

“Time has that funny way of smoothing out the rough edges of things, even ones that hurt a little bit. Or a lot.”
― Megan Hart, The Space Between Us

“Go past the insecurity. Go past the little voice that says doing that thing will hurt you. Instead let the pain flow through you, and just hold on. At that very point, you will find yourself invincible.”
― Rishank Jhavar

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN

“يتهاوى الصُحب من حولي كما تتهاوى الاوراق من غُصن الشجر .. فيمرُ شتاء وحدةٍ على نفسي ... ثم يسطعُ ربيع أملٍ على دربي .. فتنبت الحياة من أجلي صحب خيرٌ من ذي قبل ... فأمسك قلبي وأنُاجي .. رجاءاً .. لا مزيدَ من الفقدِ ! فيردُ قائلٌ .. يا فتى أوليس بتبديل الورق تنمو أغصان الشجر !”
― محمود أغيورلي

“كم جاء الثواب يسعى إليك فوقف بالباب فرده بواب (سوف ولعل وعسى).
ابن القيم”
― ابن قيم الجوزية, الفوائد

“إذا أردت أن تقوي إيمانك، فيجب أن تكون لينًا في داخلك. لأنه لكي يشتد إيمانك، ويصبح صلبًا كالصخرة، يجب أن يكون قلبك خفيفًا كالريشة. فإذا أصابنا بمرض، أو وقعت لنا حادثة، أو تعرضنا لخسارة، أو أصابنا خوف، بطريقة أو بأخرى، فإننا نواجه جميعًا الحوادث التي تعلمنا كيف نصبح أقل أنانية وأكثر حكمة، وأكثر عطفًا. وأكثر كرمًا. ومع أن بعضنا يتعلم الدرس ويزداد رقة واعتدالاً، يزداد آخرون قسوة. إن الوسيلة التي تمكنك من الاقتراب من الحقيقة أكثر تكمن في أن يتسع قلبك لاستيعاب البشرية كلها، وأن يظل فيه متسع لمزيد من الحب.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“يقبع الكون كله داخل كل إنسان –في داخلك. كل شيء ترينه حولك, بما في ذلك الأشياء التي قد لا تحبينها، حتى الأشخاص الذين تحتقرينهم أو تمقتينهم، يقبعون في داخلك بدرجات متفاوتة. لذلك لا تبحثي عن الشيطان خارج نفسك– أيضاً. فالشيطان ليس قوة خارقة تهاجمك من الخارج، بل هو صوت عادي ينبعث من داخلك. فإذا تعرفت على نفسك تماماً، وواجهت بصدق وقسوة جانبيك المظلم والمشرق، عندها ستبلغين أرقى أشكال الوعي. وعندما تعرفين نفسك، فإنك ستعرفين الله.”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love