Omar > Omar's Quotes

“التحديق في الآخر جزء من ثقافة المجتمع على ما يبدو. الناس يحدقون في بعضهم البعض بطريقة غريبة. يشيحون بأبصارهم بعيدا إذا ما التقت أعينهم ، ثم سرعان ما يعاودون الكرة ، يتفحصون بعضهم البعض. التحديق في وجه الآخر رسالة من نوع ما كما كنت أعرف. علامة إعجاب أو دلالة رفض أو نتيجة استغراب. ولكن ، لا شئ من ذلك هنا! التفرسَ في وجوه الناس عادةٌ قلما أصادف من لا يمارسها.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.”
― Christopher Markus

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“السنوات التي احملها كالجثث على ظهري.”
― ربيع جابر, دروز بلغراد: حكاية حنا يعقوب

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
― John Steinbeck

“Perhaps it takes courage to raise children..”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords him the opportunity to obtain fulfillment in experiencing beauty, art, or nature.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“أؤمن بالهواء وأتنفس الغبار”
― فيصل الحبيني, كائن يمرح في العدم

“اقرأ أقل ما يمكن، وليس أكثر ما يمكن!”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life