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“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
― Virginia Woolf

“علموك أن تحذر الفرح؛ لأن خيانته قاسية...
من أين يأتيك فجأة!!”
― محمود درويش

“I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“يارب ,, لا تنزل على الانسان كل ما يستطيع تحمله ”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“ليسَ هُناك أجمل ولا أقرب ولا أتعس ،
هُناك فقط : حُبنا الذي يمنح الأشياء ملامِحُها وأسمائها وألوانها !”
― ليلى الجهني

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

“تعثرت بضوئك .. عثرتُ على ظلي ”
― سوزان عليوان, لا أشبه أحدًا

“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“(a) Are the skies you sleep under likely to open up for weeks on end?
(b) Is the ground you walk on likely to tremble and split?
(c) Is there a chance (and please check the box, no matter how small that chance seems) that the ominous mountain casting a midday shadow over your home might one day erupt with no rhyme or reason?

Because if the answer is yes to one or all of these questions, then the life you lead is a midnight thing, always a hair's breadth from the witching hour; it is volatile, it is threadbare; it is carefree in the true sense of that term; it is light, losable like a key or a hair clip. And it is lethargy: why not sit all morning, all day, all year, under the same cypress tree drawing the figure eight in the dust? More than that, it is disaster, it is chaos: why not overthrow a government on a whim, why not blind the man you hate, why not go mad, go gibbering through the town like a loon, waving your hands, tearing your hair? There's nothing to stop you---or rather anything could stop you, any hour, any minute. That feeling. That's the real difference in a life.”
― Zadie Smith

“So where do you start when you want to start your life again?”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“The night is just a part of the day”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Every moment in life is an act of faith”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“قل لي ياصديقي الإيطالي ، لماذا يبتسم الناس عند التقاط صور لهم ؟
- لا أعلم .
- كي يقنعوا أنفسهم كم كانوا سعداء في الماضي !”
― هاني نقشبندي, اختلاس

“إن الله يخلق الإنسان في منتصف الطريق دائماً. فإما أن يمضي إلى الأمام، أو يبقى حيث تركه الله”
― هاني نقشبندي, اختلاس

“نولد ، نكبر ، نموت، و لا نعرف عن المرأة سوى ثلاثة أشياء : تحيض و لا نحيض. تلد و لا نلد. نخطيء و لا يحق لها الخطأ”
― هاني نقشبندي, اختلاس

“لا تمت قبل أن تكون ندّاً”
― غسان كنفاني

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.”
― Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
― Maya Angelou

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet