Sedeck Gaidy > Sedeck's Quotes

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“It seemed that the years had softened her, or perhaps they'd hardened me”
― Cecilia Samartin, Vigil

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.”
― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

“Ask and it shall be given you,'" I began. "'Seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.' We have the same message in the Book of Saint John," I said, sounding for all the world like a preacher...."
Well, but how could I just stop there? Those words were worse than nothing if I didn't tell what they meant to Grandpa. Looking at the long rough box, I spoke timid, in a mumbled voice. Not preachified at all. "Grandpa didn't think Jesus meant, by that, that we should ast God for things, or for special favors. He said we could trust that in the nature of things, without astin', we'll get lots of blessin's and happy surprises and maybe a miracle or two. When Jesus said ast and you'll get it, He meant things of the spirit, not the flesh. Right now for instance, I could ast, 'Lord please raise Grandpa from the dead,' but it wouldn't happen. But I can say, 'Please, God, comfort me,' and I'll get heart's ease. Grandpa said Jesus meant us to ast for hope, forgiveness, and all that. Ast, 'Hep us not be scared, hep us not be greedy, give us courage to try." I was really carried away. "Ast any such and God will give it to you. But don't ast Him not to let fire burn, or say spare me from death. At least, uh, that's what Grandpa said.”
― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

“Livin' is like pourin' water out of a tumbler into a dang Coca-Cola bottle. If'n you skeered you can't do it, you cain't. If'n you say to yourself, "By dang, I can do it!" then, by dang, you won't slosh a drop.”
― Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“The sound of your voice makes the chaos around me vanish. The smell of your hair calms my soul. The sight of your smile tames the wolf inside of me, and touching your skin…” He glanced at our joined hands. “Touching your skin makes the broken parts of me whole.” - Aren from Hunter's Moon”
― Lisa Kessler, Hunter's Moon

“His lips brushed my forehead. “Look at me.” I sighed and opened my eyes. His fingers traced my jawline. “Just be with me. That’s all. I don’t have an agenda or a time frame. If it takes fifty years to break down that wall, I’ll be there.” - Aren from Hunter's Moon”
― Lisa Kessler, Hunter's Moon

“If I’d learned anything about this woman it was that she looked like heaven, but she could make you hurt like hell.”
― Lisa Kessler, Hunter's Moon

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“A human being, any human being at all, has so perishingly few chances to stay right there, to let go of time and fall into the moment. And to love someone without measure, explode with passion... A few times when we are children, maybe, for those of us who are allowed to be... But after that? How many breaths are we allowed to take beyond the confines of ourselves? How many pure emotions make us cheer out loud without a sense of shame? How many chances do we get to be blessed by amnesia? All passion is childish, it's banal and naive, it's nothing we learn, it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us... Overturns us... It bears us away in a flood... All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe. That is the reason why passion is worth something. Not for what it gives us, but for what it demands that we risk - our dignity, the puzzlement of others in their condescending shaking heads...”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Contrary”
― Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

“لن تكون متدينا إلا بالعلم ...فالله لا يعبد بالجهل”
― مصطفى محمود, القرآن: محاولة لفهم عصري للقرآن

“الكراهية تكلف أكثر من الحب.. لأنها إحساس غير طبيعي.. إحساس عكسي مثل حركة الأجسام ضد جاذبية الأرض.. تحتاج إلى قوة إضافية وتستهلك وقوداً أكثر”
― مصطفى محمود, في الحب والحياة

“و كلما أمسكت بحالة من حالاتي و قلت هذا هو أنا .. ما تلبث هذه الحالة أن تفلت من أصابعي و تحل محلها حالة أخرى .. هي أنا .. أيضاً..”
― مصطفى محمود, لغز الموت

“لا تنفر من شيء لأنهم قالوا لك عنه خطأ.. وإنما جربه بنفسك.. سر في الطين.. تتعلم كيف تحفظ توازنك”
― مصطفى محمود

“أريد لحظة انفعال...لحظة حب...لحظة دهشة..لحظة اكتشاف...لحظة معرفة...أريد لحظة تجعل لحياتى معنى..إن حياتى من أجل أكل العيش لا معنى لها لأنها مجرد إستمرار ”
― مصطفى محمود, أكل عيش

“لو سألتم عن الحب أهو موجود وكيف نعثر عليه لقلت،
نعم موجود، ولكنه نادر, وهو ثمرة توفيق إلهي وليس ثمرة اجتهاد شخصي
وشرط حدوثه أن تكون النفوس خيرة أصلا جميلة أصلا،
والجمال النفسي والخير هما المشكاة التي يخرج منها هذا الحب.. ”
― د.مصطفى محمود

“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

“نحن فى العادة لا نعترف إلا بما نراه ونلمسه .. وهذا غرور . فما أقل مانرى ، وما أقل ماندرى فى هذه الدنيا.”
― مصطفى محمود

“كن كما أنت .. وسوف تهديك نفسك إلى الصراط”
― مصطفى محمود

“نحن مصنوعون من الفناء.. ولا ندرك الأشياء إلا في لحظة فنائها”
― مصطفى محمود, في الحب والحياة

“ربنا ما أتيت الذنوب جرأة مني عليك و لا تطاولا على أمرك و إنما ضعفا و قصورا حينما غلبني ترابي و غلبتني طينتي و غشيتني ظلمتي.
إنما أتيت ما سبق في علمك و ما سطرته في كتابك و ما قضى به عدلك.
رب لا أشكو و لكن أرجو.
أرجو رحمتك التي وسعت كل شيء أن تسعني.
أنت الذي وسع كرسيك السماوات و الأرض.”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“يارب سألتك باسمك الرحيم أن تنقذني من عيني فلا تريني الأشياء إلا بعينك أنت . وتنقذني من يدي فلا تأخذني بيدي .. بل بيدك أنت تجمعني بهما على من أحب عند موقع رضاك ... فهناك الحب الحق .”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة

“يارب استحلفتك بضعفي وقوتك ، وأقسمت عليك بعجزي واقتدارك .. إلا جعلت لي مخرجاً من ظلمتي إلى نوري .. ومن نوري إلى نورك .. سبحانك لا إله إلا أنت”
― مصطفى محمود, أناشيد الإثم والبراءة