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“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.”
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”
― Niels Bohr

“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
― Niels Bohr

“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”
― niels bohr

“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”
― Niels Bohr

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“إن العالم الذي نعيش فيه يتميّز بالسرعة الشديدة في التقدم العلمي والبطء الشديد في التقدم الإنساني وهكذا تزداد الهوة بين النضج العقلي والمادي من ناحية ، وبين النضج الاجتماعي والإنساني من الناحية الأخرى.

و لم تكن الحربان العالميتيان السابقتان أو الحروب التي لا تزال تشتعل في مناطق متعددة من العالم و تهدد بحرب عالمية ثالثة إلّا نتيجة مجتمع بشري نما عقله و علمه و تضاءل وجدانه و إنسانيته ، مجتمع بشري يتنافس على الطمع و الملكية و امتلاك أقصى ما يستطيع .
مجتمع غلبت فيه القيم التجارية على القيم الإنسانية و أصبحت القيمة الاجتماعية للإنسان تعتمد على مقدار ما " يملك " لا مقدار ما " يكون " .”
― نوال السعداوي, المرأة والجنس

“أمر غريب. رجل يتعرف على امرأة. ولزمن طويل يكونان شخصاً واحداً. مزجا أفكارهما، جسديهما، آمالهما، رائحتيهما، حياتيهما. إنهما واحد. ثم إنهما بعد فترة غريبان. وليسا واحداً بعد الآن. كأن ذلك لم يحدث أبداً، وكما لو أن الواحد ينظر في المرآة فيرى شخصاً غريباً بدلاً من انعكاس صورته.”
― وجيه غالي, Beer in the Snooker Club

“ضاع المثل المصري: ظل رجل خير من ظل حائط، فقد أصبح الرجال يهابون الشمس ويجلسون في ظل الحوائط”
― محمد مستجاب, نبش الغراب - المجموعة الثانية

“Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“The truth is, words are never accidental.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“Bruises fade and bones heal, but a scorched heart may take years to mend.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It’s not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“Listening requires attending to the other person’s heart.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don’t say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“So if we have a mouth problem, in actuality what we really have is a mind and heart issue.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“When showering life-giving words on another human, don’t just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“The mouth speaks what the heart has stored.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All