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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

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

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

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

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“اعتيادي على غيابك صعب
و اعتيادي على حضورك أصعب
كم أنا … كم أحبك … حتى
أن نفسي من نفسها تتعجب
يسكن الشعر في حدائق عينيك
فلولا عينيك لا شعر يكتب”
― نزار قباني

“ما أكثر ما عزوت لنفسي جرائم لم أقترفها قط ، كي لا أحرج الغير فى مجلسي”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“إنك محسن حقا حين تتزكى ، وعندما تتزكى أدر وجهك عمن يتقبل عطاءك حتى لا تبصر حياءه عاريا”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى .. فلا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. بل كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب”
― انيس منصور

“لا تنتظر شكراً من أحد ويكفي ثواب الصمد وما عليك ممن جحد وحقد وحسد .”
― عائض القرني, حتى تكون أسعد الناس

“إذا رأيت الصحراء تمتد وتمتد فاعلم أن وراءها رياضاً خضراء وارفة الظلال”
― عائض القرني

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies