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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“لا يعود شيءٌ يخيف
إنْ صرناه .”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“أتحدّاك بالخطيئة
تتحدّاني بالحب
وأَسكت
لأننا
أنت الحب
وأنا لست الخطيئة”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“عن طريق النفس أتحكم فى الجسد
و عن طريق العقل أتحكم فى النفس
و عن طريق البصيرة أضع للعقل حدوده”
― مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“كأن الأرواح لا عمر لها..كأنها حين تتفق لا يعنيها ما يكون بين أصحابها من اختلاف في السن”
― محمد كامل حسين, قرية ظالمة

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“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

“لأنك ضحكتَ
نحن في الوجود
ضحكت يوما ً
فتفجرت من ضحكتك الناس والأطفال.”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I must choose between despair and Energy──I choose the latter.”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
― Rumi

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

“If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.”
― Andrew Thomson, Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) : True Stories from a War Zone

“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“يحتوي الليل الألم فيزيده شده .و يحتوي الألم الليل فيزيده طولاً”
― محمد كامل حسين, قرية ظالمة

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,

And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“نحن نستطيع الخروج عن الضمير كما تستطيع السمكه أن تخرج علي حد الماء ويصيبنا من جراء ذلك ما يصيبها”
― محمد كامل حسين, قرية ظالمة