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“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”
― Woody Allen

“أنتَ أنيق في صمتك، أنا صمتي أوراق وفوضى.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?”
― Woody Allen

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”
― Woody Allen

“The heart wants what it wants.”
― Woody Allen

“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
― Woody Allen

“يتراءى لي احياناً بأني وترٌ في الة الكمان الذي بيديك: انت تؤلمني، لتسمع صوت بكاءي”
― بشاير الشيباني, كونشرتو غياب

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
― Woody Allen

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
― Woody Allen

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
― Woody Allen

“I KNOW THE WAY YOU CAN GET

I know the way you can get
When you have not had a drink of Love:

Your face hardens,
Your sweet muscles cramp.
Children become concerned
About a strange look that appears in your eyes
Which even begins to worry your own mirror
And nose.

Squirrels and birds sense your sadness
And call an important conference in a tall tree.
They decide which secret code to chant
To help your mind and soul.

Even angels fear that brand of madness
That arrays itself against the world
And throws sharp stones and spears into
The innocent
And into one's self.

O I know the way you can get
If you have not been drinking Love:

You might rip apart
Every sentence your friends and teachers say,
Looking for hidden clauses.

You might weigh every word on a scale
Like a dead fish.

You might pull out a ruler to measure
From every angle in your darkness
The beautiful dimensions of a heart you once
Trusted.

I know the way you can get
If you have not had a drink from Love's
Hands.

That is why all the Great Ones speak of
The vital need
To keep remembering God,
So you will come to know and see Him
As being so Playful
And Wanting,
Just Wanting to help.

That is why Hafiz says:
Bring your cup near me.
For all I care about
Is quenching your thirst for freedom!

All a Sane man can ever care about
Is giving Love!”
― Hafez

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“سرقت الصبح من عيني”
― بشاير الشيباني, كونشرتو غياب

“It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.”
― Vita Sackville-West

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“على مائدة الفطور تساءلت : هل صحيح أنهم كلهم تافهون أم أن غيابك فقط هو الذى يجعلهم يبدون هكذا ؟ ثم جئنا جميعا إلى هنا : أسماء كبيرة و صغيرة, ولكننى تركت مقعدى بينهم و جئت أكتب فى ناحية , و من مكانى أستطيع أن أرى مقعدى الفارغ فى مكانه المناسب , موجود بينهم أكثر مما كنت أنا”
― غسان كنفاني, رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

“الفجر يختبيء في صوت المؤذّن: ( الله أكبر ) تُفزع الليل فيهرب بالعتمة. هكذا.. تُنير الأرض كلمة.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“أنا فاشلة في الحب. ناجحة في الكتابة عنه.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“كنت أهرب من الكتابة إليك، صرت أهرب منك إلى الكتابة.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“الكتابة تجعل الوحدة شهية.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“أنا قصيدتك المهملة، مرّر لي أصابعك الآن لتكملني. حرّرني بصوتك.. غنيني. تخنقني الأدراج والدفاتر.”
― بشاير الشيباني

“I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man...”
― William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero