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“There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“El pasado y el futuro eran parte de la misma cosa y la realidad del presente era un caleidoscopio de espejos desordenados, donde todo podía ocurrir.”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“No se puede encontrar a quien no quiere ser encontrado”
― Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“الخوف لن يحفظ للخائف حياته .. لأن السفينة حينما تغرق سوف تغرق بالكل حاكمها ومحكوميها ..
ولم الخوف .. ؟!!
وهل استثنى الموت احدا منذ بدأت على الأرض حياة ...”
― مصطفى محمود, قراءة للمستقبل

“النغمة السائدة اليوم بين الكبار .. هى الديموقراطية .. والحوار .. والحل الدبلوماسى لكل شئ .. أما الحروب فندعها للصغار يدمرون بها بلادهم .. ثم ندخل نحن نبنيها من جديد بالدولار والمارك والديون والقروض”
― مصطفى محمود, قراءة للمستقبل

“هناك أشواق إسلامية فى كل بلد .. وهى ظاهرة حميدة وطيبةومبشرة .. ولكن هذه الاشواق تحاول ان تقفز على الزمن وتختصر التاريخ وتحقق الدولة الاسلامية بدون ان تمر على المرحلة الأولى الضرورية وهى صناعة الفرد المسلم .. وهى عجلة لا مجدية ..”
― مصطفى محمود, قراءة للمستقبل

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“No matter what happens, always be yourself.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“Nobody kicks a dead dog”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying & Start Living

“Just because you're the same kind doesn't mean you're all one happy family. The important thing is to understand each other. That's love!”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

“أتمنى أن أبكي و أرتجف , التصق بواحد من الكبار , لكن الحقيقة القاسية هي أنك الكبار! .. أنت من يجب أن يمنح القوة و الأمن للآخرين!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“يحكى الواحد منا عن أمر موجع لحجب الأمر الأكثر ايلاما”
― رضوى عاشور