Diana > Diana's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
― Donald Trump

“لا تعجب لشيء، إن للحقيقة و جهين، و للناس أيضا”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“لقد كنت في رومة "ابن الافريقي" و سوف تكون في إفريقية "ابن الرومي". و أينما تكون فسيرغب بعضهم في التنقيب في جلدك و صلواتك. فأحذر أن تدغدغ غريزتهم يا بني ، و حاذر أن ترضخ لوطأة الجمهور ! فمسلماً كنت أو يهودياً أو نصرانياً عليهم أن يرتضوك كما أنت ، أو أن يفقدوك. و عندما يلوح لك ضيق عقول الناس فقل لنفسك أرض الله واسعة ، و رحبة هي يداه و قلبه. و لا تتردد قطّ في الإبتعاد الى ما وراء جميع البحار ، الى ما وراء التخوم والأوطان و المعتقدات”
― Amin Maalouf, Leo Africanus

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
― Shawn Slovo, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript

“Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, Power of Positive Thinking

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“العاجز يترك ظروفه تتحكم في خياراته وقراراته.. أما القوي المتماسك فيجعل خياراته وقراراته هي التي تغير ظروفه وتؤثر فيها”
― جلال الخوالدة

“الحياة لا يعجبها تذمر الأحياء . إنها ترشوهم بأشكال مختلفة ومتفاوتة من الرضى ومن القبول بالظروف الإستثنائية”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“المخدة سجل حياتنا. المسودة الأولية لروايتنا التي، كل مساء جديد، نكتبها بلا حبر ونحكيها بلا صوت. ولا يسمع بها أحد إلا نحن. هي حقل الذاكرة، وقد تم نبشه وحرثه وتثنيته وعزقه وتخصيبه وريه، في الظلام الذي يخصنا.
ولكل امرئ ظلامه.
لكل امرئ حقه في الظلام.
هي الخربشات التي تأتي على البال بلا ترتيب ولا تركيب.
المخدة هي محكمتنا القطنية البيضاء، الناعمة الملمس، القاسية الأحكام.
المخدة هي مساء المسعى.
سؤال الصواب الذي لم نهتد إليه في حينه، والغلط الذي ارتكبناه وحسبناه صوابًا.
وعندما تستقبل رؤوسنا التي تزدحم فيها الخلائط، مشاعر النشوة والرضى أو الخسران والحياء من أنفسنا، تصبح المخدة ضميرًا وأجراسًا عسيرة.
إنها أجراس تقرع دائمًا لنا، ولكن ليس من أجلنا ولا لصالحنا دائمًا.
المخدة هي “يوم القيامة اليومي”.
يوم القيامة الشخصي لكل من لا يزال حيًا. يوم القيامة المبكر الذي لا ينتظر موعد دخولنا الأخير إلى راحتنا الأبدية.
خطايانا الصغيرة التي لا يحاسب عليها القانون والتي لا يعرفها إلا الكتمان المعتنى به جيدا، تنتشر في ظلام الليل على ضوء المخدات التي تعرف، المخدات التي لا تكتم الأسرار ولا يهمها الدفاع عن النائم.
جمالنا الخفي عن العيون التي أفسدها التعود والاستعجال، جدارتنا التي ينتهكها القساة والظالمون كل يوم، لا نستردها إلا هنا ولولا أننا نستردها هنا كل ليلة لما استطعنا الاستمرار في اللعبة. في الحياة.”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Absent Presence

“I am from there. I am from here.
I am not there and I am not here.
I have two names, which meet and part,
and I have two languages.
I forget which of them I dream in.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“أحْبَبتُكِ مُرغَماً
ليسَ لأنكِ الأجمل ، بل لأنكِ الأعمق
فعاشقُ الجمالِ فى العادةِ أحمق”
― Mahmoud Darwish