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“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“بين منطوق لم يُقصَد، ومقصود لم يُنطَق، تضيع الكثير من المحبة.”
― جبران خليل جبران

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
― Frank Serafini

“و لو أراد الله أن نكون متشابهين ،لخلقنا متشابهين ، لذلك فإن عدم احترام الاختلافات وفرض أفكارك علي الآخرين يعني عدم احترام النظام المقدس الذي أرساه الله”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Şafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“تعلمت أن أتقبل الشوكة والوردة معاً، مساوئ الحياة ومحاسنها.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“ما لم نتعلّم كيف نحبّ خلق الله، فلن تستطيع أن نحبّ حقاً ولن نعرف الله حقاً".”
― Elif Safak

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

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.”
― Napoleon Hill, Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success

“علمتني أمي أن انشغل بتقييم نفسي لأني إن انشغلت بتقييم الآخر فقد يضيق صدري إن سبقني , وقد أتوقف عن الإبداع إن سبقته.”
― طارق بن علي الحبيب, علمتني أمي

“الفنان يطلب الجمال..والمفكر يطلب الحقيقة..والثائر السياسي يطلب العدالة..والصوفي العارف يطلب الله ..
وهم قد اختلفوا في الظاهر ولكنهم ما اختلفوا في الحقيقة ..
فإن الحق العدل البديع الجميل كلها من أسماء الله”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“ربّ اجذبني إليك بحبلك الممدود لأخرج من ظلمتي إلى نورك و من عدميتي إلى وجودك و من هواني إلى عزتك .. فأنت العزيز حقاً الذي لن تضرك ذنوبي و لن تنفعك حسناتي .
إن كل ذنوبنا يارب لن تنقص من ملكك .
و كل حسناتنا لن تزيد من سلطانك .
فأنت أنت المتعال على كل ما خلقت المستغني عن كل ما صنعت .
و أنت القائل :
هؤلاء في الجنة و لا أبالي و هؤلاء في النار و لا أبالي .
و أنت القائل على لسان نبيك :
( ما يعبأ بكم ربي لولا دعاؤكم )
فها أنا أدعوك فلا أكف عن الدعاء .. فأنا المحتاج.. أنا المشكلة .. و أنا المسألة .
أنا العدم و أنت الوجود فلا تضيعني .
عاوني يارب على أن اتخطى نفسي إلى نفسي .. أتخطى نفسي الأمارة الطامعة في حيازة الدنيا إلى نفسي الطامعة فيك في جوارك و رحمتك و نورك و وجهك .”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“الله يأخذ بقدر ما يعطي و يعوض بقدر ما يحرم و ييسّر ما يعسّر .. و لو دخل كلٌّ منا قلب الاَخر لأشفق عليه و لرأي عدل الموازين الباطنيه برغم اختلال الموازين الظاهريه .. و لما شعر بحقد و لا بزهو و لا بغرور …”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions--sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments--both physical and emotional--unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss--another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner:
God.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord, and nothing is easy if you seek it through yourself.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

“With my veil I put my faith on display—rather than my beauty. My value as a human is defined by my relationship with God, not by my looks. I cover the irrelevant. And when you look at me, you don’t see a body. You view me only for what I am: a servant of my Creator.
You see, as a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

“Ultimately, the question was about the nature of the dunya as a place of fleeting moments and temporary attachments. As a place where people are with you today and leave or die tomorrow. But this reality hurts our very being because it goes against our nature. We, as humans, are made to seek, love, and strive for what is perfect and what is permanent. We are made to seek what’s eternal. We seek this because we were not made for this life. Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on—in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

“we need to put our full hope, trust, and dependency on God, and God alone. And if we do that, we will learn what it means to finally find peace and stability of heart. Only then will the roller coaster that once defined our lives finally come to an end. That is because if our inner state is dependent on something that is by definition inconstant, that inner state will also be inconstant. If our inner state is dependent on something changing and temporary, that inner state will be in a constant state of instability, agitation, and unrest. This means that one moment we’re happy, but as soon as that which our happiness depended upon changes, our happiness also changes. And we become sad. We remain always swinging from one extreme to another and not realizing why.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart

“Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn’t about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you’re already full.”
― Yasmin Mogahed, Reclaim Your Heart: Personal insights on breaking free from life's shackles

“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