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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer

“فالمبادئ ليست بذات قيمة في نظري بغير الاشخاص الذين يطبقونها باخلاص,ويؤمنون بها ويحرصون عليها.”
― توفيق الحكيم, عودة الوعي

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“لا أحد فى هذه الدنيا يساوى أن تتعذب وحدك بسببه ومن أجله .. لا أحد صدقنى .. فليس لك إلا نفسك،، إلا جسمك، ألا عقلك ،إلا راحتك .. فأنت ضرورى جدا لنفسك .. أنت ضرورى لبقائك ولست ضروريا لأى أحد اخر .. فكما كانت الدنيا قبلك، فسوف تبقى بعدك .. وربما أحسن فاهرب من نفسك إلى نفسك .. نصيحه منى ولا علاج غير ذلك !”
― أنيس منصور, تعال نفكر معًا

“الانسان القارئ لا يهزم”
― أنيس منصور

“لو سُئلت :ماالذي تتمنى أن تشربه دون أن تفيق ؟، لقلت : عصير الكتب ، خلاصة الفكر ، مسحوق الفلسفة”
― أنيس منصور, في صالون العقاد كانت لنا أيام

“الوسيلة الأولى للترغيب في القراءة هي استثارة الفضول الشخصي. ـ”
― توفيق الحكيم, تحت المصباح الأخضر

“إن الرغبة في الدنو من رجل يعيش مع الكتب هي في ذاتها فكرة جديرة بامرأة رقيقة ..”
― توفيق الحكيم

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“الزواج اثنان يعيشان معا أما الحب فاثنان يرغبان في أن يعيشا معا”
― عادل صادق, حب بلا زواج وزواج بلا حب

“الحُب الاسري أفضل مضاد للانحراف والتطرف والادمان”
― عادل صادق, حب بلا زواج وزواج بلا حب

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
― Aristotle