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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn't possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

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

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

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“إن هويتي هي التي تعني أنني لاأشبه أي شخص آخر”
― أمين معلوف

“كم علىّْ أن أخسر فى هذا العالم .. كى أربح نفسى !”
― أسماء حسين

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

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

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“الجهل مثل المعرفة، قابل للزيادة بلا حدود”
― الصادق النيهوم, تحية طيبة وبعد

“أًمشي بين أبيات هوميروس و المتنبي و شكسبير .. أَمشي وأَتعثر كنادلِ مُتدرّب في حفلة ملكية”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“إن اللغة العربية تضايقهم لأنهم لا يستطيعون قراءتها . . . والعبارة العربية تزعجهم لأنهم لا يستطيعون تركيبها . . وهم مقتنعون أن كل العصور التي سبقتهم هي عصور انحطاط ، وأنَّ كل ما كتبه العرب من شعر منذ الشنفرى حتى اليوم . . هو شعر رديء ومنحط . .
تسأل الواحد منهم عن المتنبي ، فينظر إليكَ باشمئزاز كأنك تحدثه عن الزائدة الدودية ، وحين تسأله عن (الأغاني) و (العقد الفريد) و (البيان والتبيين) و (نهج البلاغة) و (طوق الحمامة) يرد عليك بأنه لا يشتري اسطوانات عربية ولا يحضر أفلاماً عربية . . ، إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب . . ، ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء . . ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس . . وثقافتهم لا تتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه .. وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها . .”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

“وإذا أتَتْكَ مَذَمّتي من نَاقِصٍ

فَهيَ الشّهادَةُ لي بأنّي كامِلُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel