Quotes - Amr Elshafei (Cairo, 11, Egypt) Showing 1-17 of 17

#1

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

tags: innocence

2535 likes

#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71691 likes

#3

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50617 likes

#4

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

47064 likes

#5

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4746 likes

#6

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth

3771 likes

#7

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

843 likes

#8

“وحين يهيلون على قبري التراب ، انثر فوقه فتات الخبز ، فتتهافت عليه العصافير ، فأسمع صوتها ، ولا اشعر أني وحيد”
― Fyodor Doestoevsky

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#9

“كل أحد يبدأ من أول الطريق والعالم طفولة لا تنتهي”
― Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North

18 likes

#10

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-exploration

1571 likes

#11

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

2337 likes

#12

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4466 likes

#13

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
― Umberto Eco

238 likes

#14

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
― George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

tags: leisure, meditation, solitude

346 likes

#15

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: awe, magic, perception, wonder

3573 likes

#16

“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”
― Rumi

tags: anxiety, psychology, social-commentary

71 likes

#17

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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