Bushra > Bushra's Quotes

“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“كلما تعلقت بـ شخص تعلقاً أذاقكْ الله مرّ التعلق،
لـ تعلم أن الله يغار على قلب تعلق بغيره،
فيصدٌك عن ذاك لـ يرٌدك إليه .”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“إذا المـرء أفشـى سـره بلسانـه ولام عليـه غيـره فهـو أحمـق
إذا ضاق صدر المرء عن سر نفسه فصدر الذي يستودع السر أضيـق”
― الامام الشافعى

“شكوت الى وكيع سوء حفظي
فأرشدني إلى ترك ترك المعاصي

وأعلمني بأن العلم نور
ونور الله لا يهدى لعاصي”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“ومن لم يذق مر التعلم ساعة... يجرع ذل الجهل طوال حياته”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“رأيت القناعة رأس الغنىِ

فصرت بأذيالها متمسـك

فلا ذا يراني علـى بابـه

ولا ذا يراني به منهمـك

فصرت غنياً بـلا درهـمٍ

أمر على الناس شبه الملك”
― الامام الشافعى