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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

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

“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

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

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“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

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“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

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“لا تعجب لشيء، إن للحقيقة و جهين، و للناس أيضا”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“غالبًا ما يتحاشى الناس في بداية علاقةٍ ما الأسئلة المحرجة لأنهم يخشون أن يحطموا ذلك البناء الهش الذي أقاموه لتوّهم ملتزمين ألف احتياط.”
― أمين معلوف

“Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow. ”
― Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice

“كن على ثقة أن الشئ الوحيد الرهيب الذى قد يصيبك هو أن تفقد غريزة البقاء”
― Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice

“لقد كنت في رومة "ابن الافريقي" و سوف تكون في إفريقية "ابن الرومي". و أينما تكون فسيرغب بعضهم في التنقيب في جلدك و صلواتك. فأحذر أن تدغدغ غريزتهم يا بني ، و حاذر أن ترضخ لوطأة الجمهور ! فمسلماً كنت أو يهودياً أو نصرانياً عليهم أن يرتضوك كما أنت ، أو أن يفقدوك. و عندما يلوح لك ضيق عقول الناس فقل لنفسك أرض الله واسعة ، و رحبة هي يداه و قلبه. و لا تتردد قطّ في الإبتعاد الى ما وراء جميع البحار ، الى ما وراء التخوم والأوطان و المعتقدات”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“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

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
― Pablo Picasso

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker