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“A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”
― Charles Lamb

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“What comes from the heart goes to the heart”
― samuel taylor coleridge

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too:
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
On me alone it blew.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“Then all the charm
Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair
Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream

“عندما نجد غلطة في كتابة كاتب جيد، فلنفترض أولاً أننا لم نفهم قبل أن نفترض أن الكاتب
جاهل”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“لا أحد فى هذه الدنيا يساوى أن تتعذب وحدك بسببه ومن أجله .. لا أحد صدقنى .. فليس لك إلا نفسك،، إلا جسمك، ألا عقلك ،إلا راحتك .. فأنت ضرورى جدا لنفسك .. أنت ضرورى لبقائك ولست ضروريا لأى أحد اخر .. فكما كانت الدنيا قبلك، فسوف تبقى بعدك .. وربما أحسن فاهرب من نفسك إلى نفسك .. نصيحه منى ولا علاج غير ذلك !”
― أنيس منصور, تعال نفكر معًا

“الإكتشاف ليس أن تجد أرضاً جديدة .. وإنما أن ترى بعيون جديدة”
― أنيس منصور

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.”
― Carrie Underwood

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
― Ali Bin Abi Thalib

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending