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“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
― Joan Crawford

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“ 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

“يبحث الرجل عن فتاة مهذبة طيبة جميلة وبنت ناس .. ما إن يجد هذه الجوهرة حتى يكافئها بأن يهديها نفسه !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“الرضا كوب من الماء الصافي .. يمكن لأي شيء أن يفسده.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972

“الدرس الذي تعلمته من هذا الموقف هو: لا تصارح الآخرين بعيوبهم إلى أن يكتشفوها هم بأنفسهم.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“قلت لها مغضبًا: لماذا تميل النساء إلى الرجال الأوغاد الذين لا يوحون بأي ثقة؟
قالت في برود: مثلما تنجذبون معشر الرجال إلى الفتيات المائعات اللاتي لا يعرفن كيف يرعين طفلًا أو يحفظن بيتًا.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“يمكن أن تألف كل المشاعر الكريهة ما عدا الملل.. لم ألق من يمل الحديث عن الملل.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“يا للجو الرومانسي الساحر !ّ.. إنه خطر داهم .. لو مشيت في هذا الجو مع أية فتاة في العالم لتخيلت أنك تحبها بجنون!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
― Mother Teresa

“Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”
― Mother Teresa

“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
― Benjamin Franklin