Raed Redwan > Raed's Quotes

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“في العزلة كفاءةُ المُؤْتَمَن على نفسه –
يكتب العبارة , وينظر إلى السقف. ثم
يضيف : أن تكون وحيداً.... أن تكون قادراً
على أن تكون وحيداً هو تربية ذاتيَّة .
ألعزلة هي انتقاء نوع الأَلم , والتدرّب
على تصريف أفعال القلب بحريّة العصاميّ ... أَو
ما يشبه خلوَّك من خارجك وهبوطك الاضطراري
في نفسك بلا مظلَّة نجاة . تجلس ,
وحدك ة كفكرة خالية من حجة البرهان ,
دون أن تحدس بما يدور من حوار بينا
الظاهر والباطن . العزلة مصفاة لا مرآة
ترمي ما في يدك اليسرى إلى يدك اليمنى ,
ولا يتغيَّر شيء في حركة الانتقال من
اللا فكرة إلى اللا معنى . لكن هذا العَبَثَ
البريء لا يؤذي ولا يجدي : وماذا
لو كنتُ وحدي ؟ العزلة هي اختيار
المُتْرَف بالممكنات ... هي اختيار الحرّ .
فحين تجفّ , بك نفسُك , تقول :
لو كنتُ غيري لانصرفتُ عن الورقة البيضاء إلى
محاكاة رواية يابانية ,
يصعد كاتبها إلى قمة الجبل ليرى ما
فعلت الكواسر والجوارح بأجداده الموتى .
لعلِّه ما زال يكتب , وما زال موتاه يموتون
لكن تنقصني الخبرة . والقسوة الميتافيزيقية
تنقصني . وتقول : لو كنتُ غيري”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“لست متشائماً. أنا ثائر على كل شيء، والمتشائم لا يكون ثائراً بل يكون منهزماً. وأنا القائل: يرق لي تمرّدي فأشتهي
تمرّداً حتى على التمردِ”
― أدونيس

“لا تقطع صديقاً وإن كفر , و لا تركُن إلا عدوِّ و إن شكر ..
تعاشروا كالإخوان , وتعاملوا كالأجانب ..
لا تُمازح الدنيء فيجتريء عليك ..”
― أدونيس

“فكر الإنسان لا يولد إلا في تعارض مع فكر إنسان آخر . فإذا لم يكن تعارض لا يكون فكر ، بل يكون تقليد وفي أحسن الحالات شرح وتفسير”
― أدونيس, الثابت و المتحول: الأصول

“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― Johnny Depp

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“وكأن المحبوب يجمع للمحب كل ما انفعل به وتأثر به فيما مضى من حنان أم او شفقة أب أو عطف أخت ، ومن جمال وجه أو لون شعر أو طابع حسن ، أو نظرة ساحرة أو نغمة صوت ، وغير ذلك مما يستقر في عقله الباطن ، فإذا ما صادف شيئًا من ذلك في شخص ، انصب في نفسه كل هذا التيار العجيب من الحب ، فإذا هو يستحيل في نظره إلى كائن شعري فاتن أخّاذ.
فإذا هو تكفيه منه النظرة والإيماءة العابرة ، أما الوصل فهو كمال الأمنية ومنتهى الأمل ، والصفاء الذي لا كدر فيه.”
― شوقي ضيف, الحب العذري عند العرب

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
― Paulo Coelho

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
― Anthony Robbins

“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying
the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I
now enjoy. ”
― Anthony Robbins

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn’t listening to you, that he’s talking down to you, and that he isn’t treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have thin-sliced him and found him wanting.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contempt toward you is so stressful that it begins to affect the functioning of your immune system.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we’re better off that way. 1.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“We have come to confuse information with understanding.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial