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“وبي أمل يأتى ويذهب لكن لن أودعه”
― محمود درويش

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Theresa

“It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa”
― Mother Teresa

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
― Linda Grayson

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
― Mark Twain

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
― Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“أثنان في أوطاننا
يرتعدان خيفة
من يقظة النائم :
اللص .. والحاكم !”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات

“أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
― أحمد مطر

“تُنسى كأنك لم تكُن”
― محمود درويش

“‏"‏ أنت السجين ، سجين نفسك والحنين ”
― محمود درويش, جدارية

“لولا السراب...لما صمدت!!”
― محمود درويش

“و نحن نحب الحياة إذا ما استطعنا إليها سبيلا”
― محمود درويش, ورد أقل

“العزلة مصفاةٌ لا مرآة”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة