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#1

“كنت في مصر اجنبية لعدم قدرتي على تحدث العربية وفي فرنسا حيث اقمنا مؤقتا لفترة وجيزة، ورغم طلاقتي في التحدث بالفرنسية، كنت ايضا اجنبية لأني مصرية، وفي امريكا مازلت أجنبية لأني قادمة من القاهرة وباريس.
بدا ان ذلك هو قدري المحتوم، ان اكون دائما اجنبية بصرف النظر عن اي مكان من العالم اقطن.”
― Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

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#2

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#3

“While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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#4

“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: failure

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#5

“Kings are the slaves of history.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: kings

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#6

“Clown in the Moon"

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”
― Dylan Thomas, The Poems of Dylan Thomas

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#7

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

tags: dream, fucked-up, funny, humor, other, philosophy, relationships

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#8

“Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps.”
― Santosh Kalwar

tags: funny, philosophical

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#9

“The shortest horror story:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
― Frederic Brown

tags: funny, horror

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#10

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

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#11

“Want a little cheese with that whine, maestro?”
― Madeleine Urban & Abigail Roux

tags: funny

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#12

“The only difference between me and a famous writer is that I do not want to be famous.”
― Santosh Kalwar

tags: funny, inspirational

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#13

“I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art.”
― Jarod Kintz, How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

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#14

“Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.”
― Victor Borge

tags: borge, funny, humor, humorous, victor, victor-borge

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#15

“(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?”
― Victor Borge

tags: borge, funny, humor, humorous, sneeze, victor, victor-borge

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#16

“When clouds of pain loom in the sky
When a shadow of sadness flickers by
When a tear finds its way to the eye
When fear keeps the loneliness alive
I try and console my heart
Why is it that you cry? I ask

This is only what life imparts
These deep silences within
Have been handed out to all by time
Everyone’s story has a little sorrow
Everyone’s share has a little sunshine

No need for water in your eyes
Every moment can be a new life
Why do you let them pass you by?
Oh heart, why is it that you cry?”
― Javed Akhtar

tags: courage, eyes, imparts, inspitarional, love, pain, relationships, silence, sorrow, sorry, tear

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#17

“Love gives you eyes.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christianity, eyes, inspirational, jesus-shock, love, philosophy, spirituality, theology

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#18

“It's the mind that sees, not eyes.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: eyes, mind

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#19

“أحسًّ حيال عينيك
بشيءٍ داخلي يبكي”
― أمل دنقل, مقتل القمر

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#20

“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: cities, colors, darkness, dejan-stojanovic, eagle, ethereal, eyes, face, face-of-a-woman, feel, feelings, fly, flying, imperceptible, invisible, know, lantern, leaves, matter, memory, moment, moon, mountain, pedestrian, planning, poetry, poets, power, read, reality, shapes, shine, smile, soul, sounds, stormy-day, streets, substances, task-of-a-poet, tree, umbrella, understanding, watching, wave, whisper, world

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#21

“A King and Queen cannot support a crown with eyes looking down. Their universe expands as far as you can see.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: crown, destiny, eyes, future, hope, king, queen, quotes, support, universe

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#22

“She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.”
― Stephen Mosley

tags: eyes, love

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#23

“And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

tags: compassion, eyes, sweat

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#24

“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
― Francois Sagon

tags: love, passion

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#25

“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, passion, poetry, sonnet-xi

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#26

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

tags: passion, self-destruction

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#27

“J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.”
― Anatole France

tags: anatole-france, english, french, love, passion, prefer, reality, true

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#29

“I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.”
― Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

tags: love, passion

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#30

“Men love women who are courageous for it means they can go all the way with him in his pursuit of his good dreams and intentions.”
― Agu Jaachynma N.E.

tags: accomplishments, amazom, aspiration, be-different, book, business, chiyson, entrepreneurship, greater-glory, greatness, higher-living, improvement, inspiration, jaachynma, leadership, niche, passion, president, purpose, reading, relationship, revolution, risk-it, self-help, success, the-best-option, the-prince-and-the-pauper

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#31

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

--from "Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle", written 1954”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: passion, poetry, reality

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