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“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“الزمن يجلو الذاكره كأنه الماء تغمر الذهب فيه , يوما أو الف عام فتجده في قاع النهر يلتمع .”
― رضوى عاشور, ثلاثية غرناطة

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“وهل أُشبه امرأةً الأمس، تلك الصغيرةَ
ذات الضفيرةِ، والأغنيات القصيرةِ ؟”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“حين تسير و لا تجد الحلم يمشي أمامك كالظل........يصفر قلبك”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“احلم ببطئ فمهما حلمت ستدرك أن الفراشة
!لم تحترق لتضيئك”
― محمود درويش, كزهر اللوز أو أبعد

“علموك أن تحذر الفرح؛ لأن خيانته قاسية...
من أين يأتيك فجأة!!”
― محمود درويش

“يعلمني الحب أن لا أحب...
ويتركني في مهب الورق”
― محمود درويش

“لا أحنُّ إلى أي شيء
فلا أمس يمضي ولا الغد يأتي
ولا حاضري يتقدَّم لا شيء يحدث لي!
ليتني حجر”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“مقهى، وأنت مع الجريدة جالسٌ
في الركن منسيّا، فلا أحد يهين
مزاجك الصافي،
ولا أحدٌ يفكر باغتيالك
كم انت منسيٌّ وحُرٌّ في خيالك! ”
― محمود درويش

“لا بأس من أن يكون ماضينا أفضل من حاضرنا. و لكن الشقاء الكامل أن يكون حاضرُنا أفضل من غدنا. يا لهاويتنا كم هي واسعة!”
― محمود درويش, حيرة العائد

“من يحيا على حرمان غيره من الضوء يُغرِق نفسه في عتمة ظله.”
― محمود درويش, في حضرة الغياب