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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“إن السعادة تنتقل بالعدوى ..لا تنتظر عدوى أحد .. كن حاملاً لهذا الميكروب”
― أنيس منصور

“في الشطرنج كما في الموت..بعد نهاية اللعب يوضع الملك والعسكري في صندوق واحد”
― أنيس منصور

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

“في الموضة إمشي مع التيار .. في الأخلاق كن كالصخرة”
― أنيس منصور

“السياسة فن السفالة الأنيقة”
― أنيس منصور, كتاب عن كتب

“إن الثورات تقوم كما تقوم لكنها في النهاية بعد تحقيق أهدافها يجب أن تتحول إلي حكم المؤسسات، أما إذا استمرت وسائل القوة في يد واحدة فقط فهذا يجهض أهداف الثورة ذاتها.”
― نجيب محفوظ, وطني مصر

“ويوماً سألته :
- إذا كان الإسلام كما تقول فلماذا تزدحم الطرقات بالفقراء والجهلاء ؟!

فأجابني بأسى :
- الإسلام اليوم قابع في الجوامع لا يتعداها إلى الخارج !”
― نجيب محفوظ, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

“ديننا عظيم وحياتنا وثنية !”
― نجيب محفوظ, The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

“أيهما أسوأ يا مولاي، من يدعي الألوهية عن جهل أم من يطوع القرآن لخدمة أغراضه الشخصية ؟!”
― نجيب محفوظ, رحلة ابن فطومة

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“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

“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“الكراهية تكلف أكثر من الحب.. لأنها إحساس غير طبيعي.. إحساس عكسي مثل حركة الأجسام ضد جاذبية الأرض.. تحتاج إلى قوة إضافية وتستهلك وقوداً أكثر”
― مصطفى محمود, في الحب والحياة

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

“أفضل أن أكون غريبة الأطوار علي أن أكون دمية بيد أحدهم”
― شيرين هنائي, صندوق الدمى

“ان من نعت الثورات العربية فى 2011 بالربيع العربي قد فاته وصف لخريفها الأن”
― شيرين هنائي, صندوق الدمى

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra