Bader > Bader's Quotes

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

“الحب الذي تغسله العيون بدموعها يظل طاهرًا وجميلاً وخالدًا”
― جبران خليل جبران

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“يجب أن تعرف الحقيقة أبدًا وتقولها بعض المرات”
― جبران خليل جبران

“قال: الليالي جرعتني علقما
قلت: ابتسم ولئن جرعت العلقما!

فلعل غيرك إن رآك مرنما
طرح الكآبة جانبا وترنما

أتراك تغنم بالتبرم درهما
أم أنت تخسر بالبشاشة مغنما؟!

يا صاح لا خطر على شفتيك أن
تتثلما والوجه أن يتحطما

فاضحك فإن الشهب تضحك والدجى
متلاطم ولذا نحب الأنجما”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

“Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.”
― malcolm X

“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”
― malcolm x

“If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.”
― Craig Murray

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“لقد تعلمنا في المدرسة ونحن صغار أن السنبلة

الفارغة ترفع رأسها في الحقل،

وأن الممتلئة بالقمح تخفضه، فلا يتواضع إلا كبير،

ولا يتكبر إلا حقير.”
― علي الطنطاوي

“وسيظل الناس تحت أثقال العزلة المخيفة، حتى يتصلوا بالله ويفكروا دائمآ في أنه معهم وأنه يراهم ويسمعهم
...هنالك
تصير الآلام في الله..لذة
والجوع في الله..صحة
والموت..هو الحياة السرمدية الخالدة
هنالك لايبالي الإنسان ألا يكون معه أحد
! لأنه يكون مع الله”
― علي الطنطاوي

“من نمّ لك نمّ بك, ومن نقل إليك نقل عنك, ومن إذا أرضيته فقال ماليس فيك, كذلك إذا أغضبته قال فيك ماليس فيك.”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“إني بلوت الغانيات فلم أجد .. فيهن قط مليحة لاتكذب”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.”
― Marshall McLuhan, War and Peace in the Global Village

“كانتْ توَدِّعُـني
وكانَ الدَّمـعُ يخذلُهـا
فيخذلُني..
ويشدُّني
ويشدُّني
ويشدُّني
لكنَّ موتي في البقـاءِ
وما رضيتُ لِقلبِها أن يرتَـدي كَفَني..”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“من أي صخرة من الصخور, أو هضبة من الهضبات, نحتم هذه القلوب التي تنطوي عليها جوانحكم, والتي لا تروعها أنات الثكالى, ولا تحركها رنات الأيامى؟”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي

“فلا القرآن بملحون, ولا النحاة مقصرون, ولكن المبشرين جاهلون.”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي, النظرات

“I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.”
― Harold Wilson

“قَصَائدِي أَينَمَا يَنْتَابُنِي قَلَقِي
ومَنْزِلِي حَيثُمَا ألْقِي مَفاتيحِي”
― محمد الثبيتي

“قد ، عسى ، لا ، إنما .. من ، إلى ، في ، ربما.. هكذا سلمك الله قل الشعر لتبقى سالما!”
― أحمد مطر

“وضعوني في إناء ثم قالوا لي تأقلم
و أنا لست بماءٍ
أنا من طين السماء
وإذا ضاق بي إنائي
بنموي يتحطم !”
― أحمد مطر

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
― Marshall McLuhan