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“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing. You try to figure out what matters to you, and then you keep figuring it out. It felt like someone had taken away my credit card and I was having to learn how to budget. You may decide you want to spend your time working as a neurosurgeon, but two months later, you may feel differently. Two months after that, you may want to learn to play the saxophone or devote yourself to the church. Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“(B)rains give rise to our ability to form relationships and make life meaningful. Sometimes, they break.”
― Paul Kalanithinithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“We are too shortsighted to rejoice in the moments that deserve it.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon Is Low

“He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.”
― Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.
3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.
4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.
5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go.
6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.
7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.
8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.
9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.
10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“الزمن هو الزمن، يمحو ويقصي من العين والقلب الأشياء التي كانت مُنية العين والقلب”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“اللامبالاة ليست غياب المشاعر، بل رفضها”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“الأمل كانت له كل صفات النفي”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“كنت أراه وأدعه عابراً مثل خيالٍ في حياتي.
كان أيسر علي أن أكرهه، أن أحقد عليه وأنمي رغبة في الإنتقام منه في أعماقي.
غير أن ذاك اليُسر محاط بالأفخاخ: تبدأ الحكاية بمراودات الكراهية، وتنتهي بأن تصبح سماً يسري فى دمك ويقتلك.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“كان الصمت دربا, سبيلا أسلكه لكي أرجع إلى ذاتي”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“أن نعمر الأشياء بالفكر، وأن نتجنب أشراك التذكار. بعد تلك الأعوام كلها، فقدت خوفي من ماضيَّ القديم، من ماضيَّ السحيق،وأصبح غريبا ً عني. وعندما أتذكّر، ما عدتُ أخشى الموت من الحنين حتى إني لم أعد محتاجاً إلى إحراق الصور أو ترتيبها. صرتُ أقوى من اختبار الدموع الذي يُفضي إلى نفقٍ آخر. أرى إلى ذكرياتي كأنها ذكريات شخص آخر. ولست أنا، سوى دخيل، متلصص.”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“الزمن هو الزمن، يمحو ويُقصي من العين والقلب الأشياء التي كانت منية العين والقلب”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“ايها الكائن الذي مسه الضر
اعلم ان الصبر فضيله من فضائل الايمان ،
واعلم ايضا انه هبة من الله.
اذكر النبي ايوب الذي قاسى ما قاساه اتى الله على ذكره لكي تتعظ، ويقول عنه انه من الصالحين
ايها المسلم، لست منسيا برغم الظلمات والاسوار.
اعلم ان الصبر هو سبيل الخلاص ومفتاحه،ففي اخر المطاف ، انت تعلم جيدا ان الله مع الصابرين”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“لو رَغِبْتَ الحياةَ، اهجُر ضِفافَكَ”
― Rumi, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“صرفت اياما اياما محاولا ان اجد زوجا لحبيبتي ، اردته طويل القامة ، بمثل قامتي علي الاقل في بداية اعتقالي ، ورأيته اشقر ، متختلفا عني ، ولم لا : اوروبيا حتي ، مثقفا ، مدرس ادب أو فنانا . كنت اود ان اتدبر لها حياة مشرقة ، رجلا يمنحها كل ما لم يُتجح لي ان امنحه لها ، رجلا يصاحبها في اسفاره الي اليونان ، الي ايطاليا ، الي الاندلس يصحبها لزيارة الـ ( برادو ) في مدريد والـ (لوفر ) في باريس ، يهديها الكتب وينصرفان معا الي قراءتها معا في السرير ، رجلا تكتشف بصحبنه المسرح والموسيقي الكلاسيكية ، ويجعل منها امرأه مغربية مختلفة عن الاخريات ، يجعلها تحلم وتنسي قصتنا ..”
― الطاهر بن جلون, تلك العتمة الباهرة

“Because in the end, reality always betrays you. But memories they stay with you forever, beautiful, loyal, and pure.”
― Azin Sametipour, Tehran Moonlight