Hamza > Hamza's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“تنبع الإهانة من إرادة واعية في التعدي على كرامة الآخرين، وليس فقط من الهيمنة. إنها أحد الأمور الأكثر انتشاراً اليوم عالمياً بفضل مستخدميها ومن يحافظون عليها. وهو الأمر الذي يثير الأقل فالأقل من السخط من جانب الحكومات والشعوب المُهَانة نفسها أو من طرف الرأي العالمي والدولي.”
― Mahdi Elmandjra, Humiliation à l'ère du méga-impérialisme

“If you think you are powerless, then you are”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“Her words were as sharp as an eyeful of sand. She never raised her voice. It was the kind of voice that never needed to be raised. It cut words to a fine point and launched them decisively (page 88).”
― Monica Ali

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
― Erich Fromm

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
― Barbara De Angelis

“أنا للطريق .. هُناك من سبقت خُطاه خُطايّ , من أملى رؤاه على رؤاي ..هناك من نثر الكلام على سجيته ليدخل في الحكاية أو يضيء لمن سيأتي بعده أثراً غنائياً..وحدسا”
― محمود درويش, لا تعتذر عما فعلت