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“L'être est plus important que l'avoir.”
― traditionelle

“He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Sometimes interesting paths create interesting people and sometimes interesting people create interesting paths!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The most interesting people to listen to are those who do not wish to speak.”
― Andrew Davenport

“My friendships have stopped being so exclusive and the guidelines have simplified.

Does knowing me help someone I know become a better person?


Am I becoming a better person knowing someone?

Here’s how I know a relationship is working. When I’m with that person, I am happy. I look forward to seeing that person. I’m not afraid that that person will hurt me intentionally. I’m not hesitant to speak up if I do feel hurt. Knowing that person, challenges me to grow. Being around that person gives me comfort when I feel sad. That person is someone I want to celebrate with when things are great.

I’ve let go of expecting people to behave a certain way or to treat me a certain way. However, I feel I’m more idealistic about my relationships than I’ve ever been. I want the most difficult thing you can ask a person and that is for them to be themselves, the good and the bad. I want authenticity where many find it hard to be authentic with themselves. It’s from our authentic selves where true connections are made.

It’s from those true connections where I finally feel understood.”
― Corin

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
― Gillian Anderson

“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.”
― P.C. Cast Kristin Cast

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“فرغم خروج دعاتنا وفقهائنا على الفضائيات في كل مناسبة والتغني بتكريم الإسلام للمرأة، إلا أنه لا يخفى على أحد كيف كرس الفقه الموروث وضعاً مهيناً لها، ربما عن غير قصد تماماً، لكنه وضع يناسب مجتمعات ذكورية تسودها الروح القبلية والعشائرية، فالمرأة وفق هذا الفقه متاع مع الأشياء والحيوانات، وناقصة عقلٍ ودين، تحتاج لولي يزوجها ومحرم يسافر معها، باعتبارها ضلع قاصر لا تستطيع تولي أمور حياتها، ضمن نظرة دونية بعيدة كل البعد عما جاء في التنزيل الحكيم، نظرة تقدم الحجج الجاهزة لكل من يتهم الإسلام بالتخلف والرجعية، وتعطي مسوغاً لظلم النساء حتى من أنفسهن، راضين في كثير من الأحيان بالتنازل عن حقوقهن لرجل ظالم، له أفضلية عليهن، على اعتبار أن الله أعطاه القوامة، فله أن يتدخل في شؤون أخته، أو يضرب امرأته، أو يتزوج ثلاثة أخر، أو يطلقها متى أراد، وعليها طاعته والرضوخ لرغباته كي لا تلعنها الملائكة، وعليها التستر كي لا تفتن السيد المبجل، وكل ذلك في أغلب الحالات لن يجعلها تطال الجنة، حيث أكثر من في جهنم من النساء.”
― محمد شحرور

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”
― Charles Dickens

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
― Stephen Fry

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
― Mae West

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.”
― Steven Wright

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius

“There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!”
― John Mayer