Quotes - Aya Adel (cairo, Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 301

#1

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: dandy, lord-henry-wotton, wilde

6077 likes

#2

“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”
― Jon Stewart

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#3

“With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#4

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

44349 likes

#5

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds

6856 likes

#6

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

1944 likes

#7

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

152085 likes

#8

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

tags: love, simile

22960 likes

#9

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17090 likes

#10

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

7885 likes

#11

“A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.”
― Khaled Hosseini

369 likes

#12

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
― Confucius

358 likes

#13

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: goals, vision

689 likes

#14

“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”
― Gene Roddenberry

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#15

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: club, fight

1429 likes

#16

“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

950 likes

#17

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

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#18

“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

925 likes

#19

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

13398 likes

#20

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others, kindness

3222 likes

#21

“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
― Anne Frank

922 likes

#22

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
― Anne Frank

570 likes

#23

“Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

tags: hope, inspirational, wise

705 likes

#24

“Memories mean more to me than dresses.”
― Anne Frank

521 likes

#25

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

550 likes

#26

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
― Anne Frank

143 likes

#27

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2771 likes

#28

“I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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#29

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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