Ahmed Eissa > Ahmed's Quotes

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

“أنا لا يعنيني ما تؤمن به!يعنيني ما الذي تفعله بهذا الإيمان...”
― إبراهيم نصر الله

“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.”
― Muhammad Ali

“إن كل قيمة كلماتي كانت في أنها تعويض صفيق وتافه لغياب السلاح”
― غسان كنفاني

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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

“إذا كنا مدافعين فاشلين عن القضية.. فالأجدر بنا أن نغير المدافعين..لا أن نغيرالقضية”
― غسان كنفاني

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“أعنى أننى اكتشفت أننا نحن الذين نبالغ فى سرعتنا ونحن نركض خلف السعادة ، نكتشف أننا تجاوزناها أحيانا ، وخلفناها وراءنا ، دون أن ننتبه ، ولذا فإن مواصلة ركضنا هو فى الحقيقة شكل من أشكال العمى !”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, شرفة الهاوية

“المرء لايستطيع أن يفقد شيئاً هو في الأصل لغيره، وإلا سوف يعذب نفسه مرتين، مرة بجهله ومرة بفقدان ماليس له”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
― Malcolm X

“But the story of leukemia--the story of cancer--isn't the story of doctors who struggle and survive, moving from institution to another. It is the story of patients who struggle and survive, moving from on embankment of illness to another. Resilience, inventiveness, and survivorship--qualities often ascribed to great physicians--are reflected qualities, emanating first from those who struggle with illness and only then mirrored by those who treat them. If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“من باع بغداد و القدس ... لن يشتري دمشق”
― مظفر النواب

“مَتى أَوْحَشَكَ مِنْ خَلْقِهِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ يُريدُ أَنْ يَفْتَحَ لَكَ بابَ الأُنْسِ بهِ”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية

“أريد أن أستريح ، أتمدد ، أستلقي في الظل وأفكر أو لا أفكر، لا أريد أن أتحرك قط لقد تعبت في حياتي بشكل أكثر من كاف! إي والله أكثر من كاف.”
― غسان كنفاني, رجال في الشمس

“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

“حدثني ماذا يقول جدك عن الأرواح
يقول كل الأرواح جميلة وكلها طيبة،
وهل قال لك يا سالم ما الذي ينقذ هذه الارواح ؟
نعم , قال الحب”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور