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“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Mais il faut prier n'importe où, et dans la nature en particulier. Dans la nature il y a cet ordre de la création qui me fascine. Quand je pense que les bourgeons se mettent en place au mois de septembre pour que les lilas fleurissent au mois de mai! C'est prodigieux! C'est merveilleux. Pour moi cette organisation de la nature, à la fois visible et invisible, si minutieuse et si riche, ne peut venir que de Dieu.”
― Jeanne Bourin

“[...], je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.”
― Régine Deforges

“Je crois qu'il existe quand même une grande complémentarité entre l'homme et la femme. Nous vivons dans deux univers différents; on n'a pas les mêmes sensibilités, pas les mêmes ambitions, pas les mêmes conceptions du monde...
Mais il y a l'amour pour communique d'un monde à l'autre. L'amour est le ciment idéal, qui permet aux hommes et aux femmes de vivre ensemble de façon "convenable", disons assez satisfaisante, parfois même merveilleuse. L'amour est un miracle permanent.”
― Jeanne Bourin

“There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.”
― Yasmin Mogahed

“With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.
You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“إذا يوماً خطر ببال الطريق أن يسافر
أن يحمل الأشجار ويسافر
كيف بعد يسافر المسافر”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ in terms of sheer beauty. We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that's God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star