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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“الغياب شكل من أشكال الحضور، يغيب البعض وهم حاضرون في أذهاننا أكثر من وقت حضورهم في حياتنا”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“هذه هي الصلاة من وجهة نظر المؤمن، مقابلة مع الله، و مناجاة و دعاء، و ما أعظمها لحظات يتيحها الله لنا نخلص فيها من وطأة الحياة و مصاعبها، لكي نلجأ إليه سبحانه .. و ندعوه، و نستهديه و نستلهمه الصواب.”
― حسن توفيق شريف, بني الإسلام على خمس

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Tenderness is not weakness; it is fortitude.”
― Pope Francis

“the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us.
if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. ”
― benjamin franklin

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

“الله الكريم سمح لنا أن ندخل عليه فى أى وقت بلا ميعاد، ونبقى في حضرته ما شئنا وندعوه ما وسعنا.. بمجرد أن نبسط سجادة الصلاة ونقول "الله أكبر" نصبح فى حضرته نطلب منه ما نشاء.
أين هو الملك الذى نستطيع أن ندخل عليه بلا ميعاد ونلبث في حضرته مانشاء؟!”
― مصطفى محمود, حوار مع صديقي الملحد

“الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ”
― مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

“But we have other lives, I think, I hope,’ she murmured. 'We live in others, … We live in things.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz