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“When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen

“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
― Alan Alda, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

“إياك و الرضى عن نفسك فإنه يضطرك إلى الخمول، وإياك والعجب فإنه يورطك في الحمق، وإياك والغرور فإنه يظهر للناس كلهم نقائصك كلها ولا يخفيها إلا عليك...”
― طه حسين

“As can be seen, ‘crisis’, in its proper sense, expresses something positive, creative and optimistic, because it involves a change, and may be a rebirth after a break-up. It indicates separation, certainly, but also choice, decisions and therefore the opportunity to express an opinion.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, State of Crisis

“Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“I used to think healing meant ridding the body and the heart of anything that hurt. It meant putting your pain behind you, leaving it in the past. But I’m learning that’s not how it works. Healing is figuring out how to coexist with the pain that will always live inside of you, without pretending it isn’t there or allowing it to hijack your day. It is learning to confront ghosts and to carry what lingers. It is learning to embrace the people I love now instead of protecting against a future in which I am gutted by their loss.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close, Chuck Close

“لا شك أن المتع كثيرة ولكن يبدو أن أمتعها جميعا وأحلاها هي متعة أن تعرف..متعة أن تعلم ماتجهله أو تزداد علما بما تعرفه.”
― يوسف إدريس, لغة الآي آي

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell

“ما من مصيبة إلا الجهل؛فالمصيبة تثقل على قدر جهلنا مصدرها و معناها، و تخف على قدر فهمنا معناها و مصدرها”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, مذكرات الأرقش

“Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject”
― Thomas Mann

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
― John C. Maxwell

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“أعرف الحياةَ"
من قفاها
لكثرة ما أدارت لي وجهها”
― عدنان الصائغ

“People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.”
― Brianna Wiest

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
― John Stuart Mill

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson