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“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”
― Albert Einstein

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
― Joseph Campbell

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
― Abraham Harold Maslow

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
― Abraham Maslow

“I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“What one can be, one must be!”
― Abraham H. Maslow

“وعجيب أن يخلق المرء حرًا ثمّ يأبى لنفسه الحرية”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
― Johnny Depp

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“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

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“عندما اعتنقت الإسلام منذ أكثر من إحدى وعشرين سنة، بدا لي أنه مامن مسلم التقيته إلا وكان تواقاً ليتحدث إلى حول خصوصيات ذات حساسية يعدّها جزءاً لا يتجزأ من العقيدة والدين. كنت أرتاب في كثير مما يقال لي، ولكني حينذاك لم أكن أمتلك الوسيلة التي أتأكد بموجبها من صحة ما يقال.
قيل لي في مناسبات عديدة: إن علي أن أرتدي ملابس شرق أوسطية، وألا أسمع موسيقا، وأن أردد الدعاء والابتهالات كلها بالعربية، وألا أصفّر، وأن آكل بيدي ولا أستخدم أدوات الطعام، وألاّ يكون عندي تلفاز، وألا أرتدي ربطة عنق، وأن أعمل على إسقاط الحكومة الأمريكية عندما تتاح الفرصة، وأن المرأة لا تستطيع مغادرة بيتها إلا بإذن زوجها، ولا تصوّت في الانتخابات، ولا يجوز لها العمل خارج البيت، وأنها لا ينبغي أن تحصل على إجازة قيادة سيارة، وأن الديمقراطية حرام، وأن عليّ تغيير اسمي إلى اسم عربي، وأن استهداف المدنين مسموح به في الجهاد، وأن ارتكاب المرأة للزنى هو أسوأ من ارتكاب الرجل له. وكثير مما يجب أن أفعله وما يجب ألا أفعله تدعمه ببراهين واهية غير مقنعة. ولو لم أكن أخذت ديني عن القرآن، ولو اعتبرت مثل هذه الادعاءات تعبر عن الإسلام حقيقة، لكنت قد تركت الدين بالتأكيد.”
― Jeffrey Lang, Losing My Religion: A Call For Help

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”
― William Penn