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“كلّما قالوا انتهى، فاجأتُهُمْ أَنّي ابتدأتْ ”
― مريد البرغوثي

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

--Alexander Supertramp, May 1992”
― Christopher McCandless

“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“He read a lot. He used a lot of big words. I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. A couple of times I tried to tell him it was a mistake to get too deep into that kind of stuff, but Alex got stuck on things. He always had to know the absolute right answer before he could go on to the next thing.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it… I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“قالت أنا خائفة جداً،قلت لماذا؟ قالت لأني أشعر بسعادة غامرة، د رسول.
السعادة بهذا القدر مرعبة . سألتها لماذا ؟ قالت، لايتركوك سعيداً بهذا القدر إلا إذا كانوا سيأخذون شيئاً منك،. وقلت اسكتي، الآن، يكفي سخافة”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“ليس هناك فعل أشنع من السرقة،رجل يأخذ ماليس له،قدتكون حياة أو قطعة خبز ،ابصق على هكذا رجل ،واذا التقيت بمثله مرة فليساعده الله ،”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“مخطئون فيما قالوه عن الماضي ، لقد تعلمت كيف أدفنه ، إلا أنه دائماً يجد طريق عودته”
― خالد حسيني, عداء الطائرة الورقية

“عندما كنت صغيرًا جدًا تسلقت تلك الشجرة وأكلت تلك التفاحات الخضراء الحامضة. انتفخت معدتي وأصبحت قاسية كالطبل، آلمتني كثيرًا. قالت أمي أني لو انتظرت إلى أن نضج التفاح لما مرضت. هكذا الحال الآن، كلما رغبت شيئا بشدة، أحاول تذكر ماقالته أمي عن تلك التفاحات...”
― خالد حسيني

“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.”
― Shunryu Suzuki

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.”
― Christopher McCandless

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“You never know what's coming for you.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“خاصم الفكرة ولاتخاصم المفكر”
― محمد الرطيان, وصايا