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“We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other and all of a sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don’t know how that happened”
― John C. Moffi

“A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

“Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

“The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.”
― Carroll Bryant

“Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?”
― Plato, The Republic

“There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.”
― Dexter Morgan

“إن القلق حالة من التوتر تنتابنا حينما ننقسم في داخلنا و نشهد رغباتنا و هي تقتتل و تتصارع ..
إنها اللحظة الأليمة التي تتجلى فيها عداوتنا لأنفسنا ، و هي عداوة مفزعة .. لأن لا شئ فيها يمكن لمسه بالأصبع أو رؤيته رؤية العيان .. "

د.مصطفى محمود ، الأحلام”
― مصطفى محمود

“After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.”
― Basith, Autopsy of the seasons

“If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
― E.E. Cummings

“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― E.E. Cummings

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“Sane is boring.”
― R. A. Salvatore

“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“ان العواصف و الثلوج تفني الزهور ولكنها لا تميت بذورها”
― جبران خليل جبران, الأرواح المتمردة