Rowida Mahmoud > Rowida's Quotes

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.”
― Tom Hiddleston

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”
― Osho

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.”
― Osho

“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. ”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Simplicity is not a simple thing.”
― Charles Chaplin

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.

As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.

As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.

As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.

As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!”
― Charlie Chaplin

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”
― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have

“All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.”
― Mark Nepo

“قلت لها مغضبًا: لماذا تميل النساء إلى الرجال الأوغاد الذين لا يوحون بأي ثقة؟
قالت في برود: مثلما تنجذبون معشر الرجال إلى الفتيات المائعات اللاتي لا يعرفن كيف يرعين طفلًا أو يحفظن بيتًا.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“اليوم هو أول يوم مما تبقى لي من عمر.. عبارة شكسبيرية رائعة !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“أكره المريض والصديق الذي لا يخبرك إلا بالأخبار السيئة
يقول لك أن الحمى قد عادت، إذن فكانت قد ذهبت لماذا لم تقل لي !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.”
― Toni Morrison

“قال لي: أريد أن أسافر إلى أمريكا .. إلى بلد يعرف قدري .. قلت له: لماذا تريد أن تسافر لبلد يعرف قدرك ؟... لماذا تريد هذه الفضيحة ؟ .. في بلد طيب متسامح مثل مصر يمكن للحمار أن يظل مستورًا وأن يأمل في وجبة العشاء.. لكن هناك سيفتضح أمرك خلال ربع ساعة ... نصيحتي هي.. ابق هنا!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.”
― Charles Haanel

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook