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“البعض نحبهم
لكن لا نقترب منهم...فهم في البعد أحلى
وهم في البعد أرقى...وهم في البعد أغلى

البعض نحبهم
ونسعى كي نقترب منهم
ونتقاسم تفاصيل الحياة معهم
ويؤلمنا الابتعاد عنهم
ويصعب علينا تصوّر الحياة حين تخلو منهم.

البعض نحبّهم
ونتمنى أن نعيش حكاية جميلة معهم
ونفتعل الصدف لكي نلتقي بهم
ونختلق الأسباب كي نراهم
ونعيش في الخيال أكثر من الواقع معهم

البعض نحبهم
بيننا و بين أنفسنا
نصمت برغم الألم
لا نجاهر بحبهم حتى لهم لأن
العواقب مخيفه و من الأفضل لنا و لهم أن تبقى الأبواب مغلقة

البعض نحبهم
فنملأ الأرض بحبهم و نحدث الدنيا عنهم
و نحتاج إلى وجودهم..كالماء..والهواء
و نختنق فى غيابهم أو الأبتعاد عنهم

البعض نحبّهم
لأننا لا نجد سواهم
وحاجتنا إلى الحب تدفعنا نحوهم
فالأيام تمضي
والعمر ينقضي
والزمن لا يقف
ويرعبنا بأن نبقى بلا رفيق

البعض نحبهم
لأن مثلهم لا يستحق سوى الحب
ولا نملك أمامهم سوى أن نحب
نرمم معهم أشياء كثيرة
نعيد طلاء الحياة
ونسعى صادقين كي نمنحهم بعض السعادة

البعض نحبهم
و لا نجد صدى للحب في
قلوبهم
فننهار
ونتخبط في حكايات فاشلة
فلا نكرههم
لا ننساهم
لا نحب سواهم
ونعود نبكيهم بعد كل محاولة فاشلة

والبعض نحبّهم
ويبقى فقط أن يحبّوننا
مثلما نحبّهم”
― جبران خليل جبران

“انتم تؤمنون بما تسمعونه يقال امامكم ، فآمنوا بالاحرى بما لا يقال ، لأن صمت الناس اقرب الى الحقيقة من اقوالهم .”
― جبران خليل جبران

“باطلة هي الاعتقادات والتعاليم التي تجعل الإنسان تعسا في حياته، وكذّابة هي العواطف التي تقوده إلى اليأس والحزن والشقاء. لأن واجب الإنسان أن يكون سعيداً وأن يعلم سُبل السعادة ويهدي الناس اليها اينما كان”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأرواح المتمردة

“ولا تقل في ذاتك : " قد وجدت الحق " بل قل بالأحرى : " قد وجدت حقا”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Prophet

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

“Silence is a source of Great Strength.”
― Lao Tzu

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
― May Sarton

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”
― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!”
― James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.”
― Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.”
― Chris Crutcher, Deadline

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

“لا يوجد بالسعودية تيار إسلامي. يوجد “مطاوعة” لهم مصالح سياسية وشعبية وثارات.
لا يوجد بالسعودية تيار ليبرالي. يوجد “أعداء المطاوعة”، وهؤلاء أيضاً لهم مصالح وثارات سياسية وشعبية.”
― أشرف إحسان فقيه

“يا ألله!
كُنتُ بعيداً، وكَمْ مَشَيتُ،
وما اقْتَرَبْتُ”
― بسام حجار, سوف تحيا من بعدي

“تعلمت لأجلك لُغة الصمت ،
كي لا اُعآتبك وأقول بـِ مراراه
أنك [ خذلتني ] ..!”
― غادة السمان

“و نومك الكثير
ماهو الا دليل على كثرة موتك”
― رشاد حسن, مرآة تبحث عن وجه

“أنا حي.. لأني أنتظر متى أموت! لو كانت لي شجاعة كافية.. لقررت أن أموت! عند منتصف الحياة.. وبعد أن آخذ مع الموت عهداً.. أن يبتعد عني، ويتركني.. وألا يرعبني من جديد.. وليذهب إلى أشخاص آخرين! لا يستحقون الحياة!ليس لأني ميت حقاً.. بل لأنه لم يعد لدي صبر على تحمل المصائب! ففكرة الحياة مع الموت مرعبة.. تخاف أن تطأ على زناد الموت.. فتكون فريسة له بالخطأ.. وتخاف أن تكون حيا.. فيرعبك أن الموت يطاردك”
― رشاد حسن, مرآة تبحث عن وجه

“النهارده كنت كويس قدام الناس .. بس ما كنتش أنا، ومش عارف إمتى هاكون كويس وأنا!”
― فؤاد حداد

“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a place of her own even if she never wants
to or needs to...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her
dreams wants to see her in an hour...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a youth she's content to leave behind....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to
retelling it in her old age....
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .....
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
one friend who always makes her laugh... and one who
lets her cry...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a good piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone
else in her family...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
eight matching plates, wine glasses with stems, and a
recipe for a meal that will make her guests feel honored...
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....
a feeling of control over her destiny...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to fall in love without losing herself..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
HOW TO QUIT A JOB,
BREAK UP WITH A LOVER,
AND CONFRONT A FRIEND WITHOUT RUINING THE FRIENDSHIP...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
when to try harder... and WHEN TO WALK AWAY...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that she can't change the length of her calves,
the width of her hips, or the nature of her parents..
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
that her childhood may not have been perfect...but it's over...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she would and wouldn't do for love or more...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
how to live alone... even if she doesn't like it...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
whom she can trust,
whom she can't,
and why she shouldn't
take it personally...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
where to go...
be it to her best friend's kitchen table...
or a charming inn in the woods...
when her soul needs soothing...
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW...
what she can and can't accomplish in a day...
a month...and a year...”
― Pamela Redmond Satran

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You

“(His) sadness grew; it became a rock inside him, pulling him down. He carried the sadness everywhere, morning, noon, and night. It hurt to breathe. ”
― Kevin Henkes, Bird Lake Moon