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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.”
― Tariq Ramadan

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“The law of probability combined with the law of large numbers states that to beat the odds, sometimes you have to repeat an event an increasing number of times in order to get you to the outcome you desire. The more you do, the closer you get. Or… basically, sometimes you just have to keep going.”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.”
― Jojo Moyes, One Plus One

“حقيقة، لا تهمّني كثيرًا مسألة وجود الله؛ ما يهمّني هو معرفة الله. الإرهابيون، الكاذبون، العصاة، الطغاة، المرتشون، المعتدون كلّهم يعرفون أن الله موجود. لكن هل يعرفون من يكون؟
معرفة الله تؤدي إلى تعظيمه، وتعظيمه ينسيك كل ما دونه؛ فلا يتعلّق قلبك بمخلوق؛ أنت حينها تعلم -تمام اليقين- أن هناك مسبّب الأسباب واحد. هناك رازق واحد. هناك رحيم حكيم قوي جبّار سلام عدل لطيف مجيب ودود قادر هادي واحد.
ألن ينجلي كل هم وغمٍّ بمجرّد الارتماء إلى من اتصف بهذه العظمة؟ ألا يكفيك اليقين بحبّه لك لترتاح؟”
― مشاري الإبراهيم, أربعة عقود من اليأس

“I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.”
― Maeve Binchy

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“اللا معقول اليوم قد يصبح مجرد نظرية علمية بسيطة يدرسها الأطفال فى المستقبل”
― نبيل فاروق

“ .. الاسلام دين قوى ودين حق ، يكفيه وجوده وتكفيه تعاليمه وحكمه ليقوى ، وليقف فى وجه كل حضارات الدنيا شامخاً عظيماً ، ولا داعى لأن نفتعل ما نتصور أنه سيقويه فللدين رب يحميه ، وهو العلى القدير .”
― نبيل فاروق

“أكبر الموانع في سبيل العقل عبادة السلف التي تسمى بالعرف، والاقتداء الأعمى بأصحاب السلطة الدينية، والخوف المهين لأصحاب السلطة الدنيوية.”
― عباس محمود العقاد, ‫التفكير فريضة إسلامية‬