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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Love is quivering happiness.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives colour and scent to a flower.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“الخجل ينبع من توهمك لأهمية مبالغ فيها لنفسك .. أنت لست مهماً كما تعتقد .. لست مهماً على الإطلاق وليس هناك شخص متفرغ لمراقبة خلجاتك وأخطائك”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, زغازيغ

“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love.
I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.”
― Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“هناك أشياء عزيزة و نفيسة
نؤثر أن نبقيها كامنة في زاوية من أرواحنا
بعيدة عن العيون المتطفلة ، فلابد من إبقاء
الغلالة مسدلة على بعض جوانب هذه الروح ،
صوناً لها من الابتذال .”
― فدوى طوقان

“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“C'est le temps que tu a perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“النسيان شكل من أشكال الحرية”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“كلّما ازداد الإنسان غباوة .. ازداد يقيناً بأنه أفضل من غيره في كل شيء .”
― علي الوردي, مهزلة العقل البشري

“قد يعتقد المسلمون اليوم أنّهم لو كانوا يعيشون في زمان الدعوة لدخلوا فيها حالما يسمعون بها. ولست أرى مغالطة أسخف من هذه المغالطة.
يجب على المسلمين اليوم أن يحمدوا ربهم ألف مرة لأنّه لم يخلقهم في تلك الفترة العصيبة. ولو أنّ الله خلقهم حينذاك لكانوا من طراز أبي جهل أو أبي سفيان أو أبي لهب أو لكانوا من أتباعهم على أقل تقدير، ولرموا صاحب الدعوة بالحجارة وضحكوا عليه واستهزأوا بقرآنه ومعراجه.
تصور يا سيّدي القارئ نفسك في مكة أبان الدعوة الإسلامية، وأنت ترى رجلاً مستضعفاً يؤذيه الناس بالحجارة ويسخرون منه، ويقولون عنه إنّه مجنون. وتصور نفسك أيضاً قد نشأت في مكة مؤمناً بما آمن به آباؤك من قدسية الأوثان، تتمسح بها تبركاً وتطلب منها العون والخير. ربّتك أمك الحنونة على هذا وأنت قد اعتدت عليه منذ صغرك، فلا ترى شيئاً غيره. ثم تجد ذلك الرجل المستضعف يأتي فيسب هذه الأوثان التي تتبرك بها فيكرهه أقرباؤك وأصحابك وأهل بلدتك وينسبون إليه كل منقصة ورذيلة. فماذا تفعل؟ أرجو أن تتروى طويلاً قبل أن تجيب عن هذا السؤال.”
― علي الوردي, مهزلة العقل البشري