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“قد يستمر الناس على احترام نصوص الشريعة ولكنهم سرعان مايكفون عن مراعاة احكامها”غوستاف لوبون/روح السياسة”
― غوستاف لوبون

“She had moved to Los Angeles from the Midwest, lured by a job with a publisher. But the publisher was bought by another soon after, and she was left without a job. Turning to freelance writing, an erratic marketplace, she found herself either swamped with work or unable to pay her rent. She often had to ration phone calls, and for the first time was without health insurance. This lack of coverage was particularly distressing: she found herself catastrophizing about her health, sure every headache signaled a brain tumor, picturing herself in an accident whenever she had to drive somewhere. She often found herself lost in a long reverie of worry, a medley of distress. But, she said, she found her worries almost addictive. Borkovec”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for failure, ascribing it to some lasting characteristic they are helpless to change.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“A series of studies by Marian Radke-Yarrow and Carolyn Zahn-Waxler at the National Institute of Mental Health showed that a large part of this difference in empathic concern had to do with how parents disciplined their children. Children, they found, were more empathic when the discipline included calling strong attention to the distress their misbehavior caused someone else: “Look how sad you’ve made her feel” instead of “That was naughty.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“Stress makes people stupid.” On”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing “something” wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“some studies have found that pessimists smoke and drink more, and exercise less, than optimists, and are generally much more careless about their health”
― Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

“Even people who appear so dull that they couldn’t possibly have anything interesting to say, do have something interesting to say. Guaranteed. But first, you have to take a look through their window to see it. Ever had a first impression of someone along these lines:”
― Will Jelbert, The Happiness Animal

“Generosity generates freedom in the giver. It frees you from being possessed by possessions. After all, you only really own something when you have the power to give it away.”
― Will Jelbert, The Happiness Animal

“human beings are notoriously bad at making accurate predictions of their futures, and notoriously bad at predicting how they will feel when they get to those futures. It turns out that you are not only inept at predicting what you will want in the future, but you are also inept at predicting how frightening your future will be. We rarely test out our fears against our past experience or against the evidence of our current reality, and then we are surprised when our future does not turn out to be as frightening as we predicted. Unfortunately for you, every thought you have about that future fear, draws a circle around the fear, zooming its importance in your mind to 2x or 3x magnification.”
― Will Jelbert, The Happiness Animal

“(Demanding interest on loans was not permitted anywhere in Europe until 1545, when Henry VIII legalised it in England.)”
― Jane Gleeson-White, Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance

“I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better if the Almighty had created us all as – well – as sort of plants. You know, firmly embedded in the soil. Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.”
― Georges Perec, Things: A Story of the Sixties / A Man Asleep

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“إننا كلنا، كلنا بلا استثناء، كل الموجودات، نحنُ والقطط والغزلان، والغزلان التي تستحيل إلى هداهد، نقتحم الدوائر نفسها، جميعنا حُجاج في طريق الحياة نفسه، وكلنا بلا استثناء، علينا أن نُضيع أنفسنا قبل أن نجدها مجددًا”
― حمزة كاشغري, الشاعر والقرصان