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“كل كفاح بشري عديم الجدوى أمام تلك القوة التي لا قبل للإنسان بها..
ومع ذلك يكافح.. وهنا مأساة الإنسان وعظمته.”
― توفيق الحكيم, مصير صرصار

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

“الحياه يمكن أن تستمر بجسد يتألم... الحياه يمكن أن تستمر بجسد عاجز.. و لكنها لا تستمر بنفس حطمها الفشل و الهزيمه و هدها الحزن و أنهكتها الصرعات.”
― عادل صادق, الألم النفسي والعضوي

“صغيرٌ يطلبُ الكِبرا .. وشيخٌ ود لو صَغُرا
وخالٍ يشتهي عملا ً.. وذو عملٍ به ضَجِرا
ورب المال في تعب .. وفي تعب من افتقرا
وذو الأولاد مهمومٌ .. وطالبهم قد انفطرا
ومن فقد الجمال شكي .. وقد يشكو الذي بُهِرا
ويشقى المرء منهزما .. ولا يرتاح منتصرا
ويبغى المجد في لهفٍ .. فإن يظفر به فترا
شُكاةٌ مالها حَكَمٌ .. سوى الخصمين إن حضرا
فهل حاروا مع الأقدار .. أم هم حيروا القدرا ؟”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”
― Oprah Winfrey