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“الإنسان لا يريد أن يكون سعيدًا ياحبيبتي. هو إما أن يكون سعيدًا أو لا يكون؛ إرادته لا دخل لها بالموضوع.”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“كان عيدا و انتهى. كان كابوساً و انتهى. كان ما كان .... و انتهى”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
― Bob Marley

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“كيف أرجع إلى ما كنت قبلاً ؟ نعم عشت من غير حب وعشت سعيداً ولكنها سعادة الأعمى الذي لم ير الجمال ولكنك فتحت عين الأعمى وجعلته يبصر وينبهر ..فهل تحسبه إذا أرجعته إلى ظلامه الأول مستطيعاً أن يجد سعادته الأولى ؟”
― توفيق الحكيم

“إن الانسان ليفسر تصرفات الناس أحياناًويضخمها أو يصغرها وفقاً لعلاقتها بمشاعره وأهوائه ، أما هي في ذاتها فليست ضخمة ولا ضئيلة ، ولكنها مناسبة مع منطق الظروف مجردة من أي إعتبار”
― توفيق الحكيم , الرباط المقدس

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”
― Bill Watterson

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

“اذا اردت ان تفهم انسانا فانظر فعله في لحظة اختيار حر وحينئذ سوف تفاجأ تماما فقد تري القديس يزني وقد تري العاهره تصلي,وقد تري الطبيب يشرب السم,وقد تفاجأ بصديقك يطعنك وبعدوك ينقذك وقد تري الخادم سيدا في افعاله والسيد احقر من احقر خادم في اعماله وقد تري ملوكا يرتشون وصعاليك يتصدقون..”
― مصطفى محمود

“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

“في دستور الله و سنته أن الحرية مع الألم أكرم للانسان من العبودية مع السعادة ولهذا تركنا نخطيء ونتألم ونتعلم وهذه هي الحكمة في سماحه بالشر”
― مصطفى محمود, حوار مع صديقي الملحد

“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms