Sara Abusamaha > Sara's Quotes

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“وقالوا: بعيدٌ، قلت حسبي بأنه
معي في زمانٍ لا يطيق محيدا
تمر علي الشمس مثل مرورها
به كل يوم يستنير جديدا
فمن ليس بيني في المسير وبينه
سوى قطع يوم، هل يكون بعيدا؟
وعلم إله الخلق يجمعنا معاً
كفى ذا التداني، ما أريد مزيدا”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

“وإن الشي ليتضاعف حسنه ، في عين مستحسنه”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“فلماذا اذن يجب ان اصغي الى قلبي؟
لأنك لن تنجح في اسكاته ابدا و حتى لو تظاهرت بانك لا تسمع ما يقول فسيظل هناك في صدرك و لن يكف عن ترداد ما يعتقده عن الحياة و العالم”
― باولو كويلو, The Alchemist

“ومِن النّاس مَن لا تَصحُّ مَحبّتُه إلا بَعدَ طول المُخافتةِ
و كثيرِ المشاهدةِ
و تمادِي الأُنس،
وهذا الذي يُوشِكُ أن يَدومَ و يَثْبُتَ
ولا يَحِيكُ فيه مُرُّ الليالي.
فما دَخَلَ عسيرًا.. لم يَخْرُجْ يَسيرًا.”
― ابن حزم الأندلسي, طوق الحمامة في الألفة والألاف

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“So? If I die, then I die! The loss to the world won’t be great. Yes, and I’m fairly bored with myself already. I am like a man who is yawning at a ball, whose reason for not going home to bed is only that his carriage hasn’t arrived yet. But the carriage is ready . . . farewell!
I run through the memory of my past in its entirety and can’t help asking myself: Why have I lived? For what purpose was I born? . . .
There probably was one once, and I probably did have a lofty calling, because I feel a boundless strength in my soul . . .
But I didn’t divine this calling. I was carried away with the baits of passion, empty and unrewarding. I came out of their crucible as hard and cold as iron, but I had lost forever the ardor for noble aspirations, the best flower of life.
Since then, how many times have I played the role of the ax in the hands of fate! Like an instrument of execution, I fell on the head of doomed martyrs, often without malice, always without regret . . .
My love never brought anyone happiness, because I never sacrificed anything for those I loved: I loved for myself, for my personal pleasure.
I was simply satisfying a strange need of the heart, with greediness, swallowing their feelings, their joys, their suffering—and was never sated. Just as a man, tormented by hunger, goes to sleep in exhaustion and dreams of sumptuous dishes and sparkling wine before him. He devours the airy gifts of his imagination with rapture, and he feels easier. But as soon as he wakes: the dream disappears . . . and all that remains is hunger and despair redoubled!
And, maybe, I will die tomorrow! . . . And not one being on this earth will have ever understood me totally. Some thought of me as worse, some as better, than I actually am . . . Some will say “he was a good fellow,” others will say I was a swine. Both one and the other would be wrong.
Given this, does it seem worth the effort to live? And yet, you live, out of curiosity, always wanting something new . . . Amusing and vexing!”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“قد لا نلتقي قط، وعلام نلتقي؟!”
― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

“فالواجب على العاقل : أن يكون بما أحيا عقله من الحكمة ، أَكلفَ منه بما أحيا جسده من القوت ؛ لأن قوت الأجساد المطاعم وقوت العقل الحِكَم ، فكما أن الأجساد تموت عند فقد الطعام والشراب ، وكذلك العقول إذا فقدت قوتها من الحكمة ماتت . والتقلب في الأمصار والاعتبار بخلق اللَّه مما يزيد المرء عقلا ، وإنْ عَدِمَ المال في تقلبه.”
― محمد بن حبان البستي, روضة العقلاء ونزهة الفضلاء

“وكم لله من لُطفٍ خفيٍّ ** يدِقّ خفاهُ عن فهم الذكيِّ
وكم يسر أتى من بعد عُسر** ففرّج كربة القلبِ الشجيِّ
وكم من أمر تُساءُ به صباحًا ** وتأتيكَ المسَرّة في العشيِّ
إذا ضاقت بك الأحوال يومًا ** فثق بالواحد الصمد العليِّ”
― سلمان بن فهد العودة, مع الله

“فهذا سعد بن أبي وقاص رضي الله عنه كان مستجاب الدعوة، وعميت عيناه ، فقيل له :ألا تدعو الله عز وجل ، قال: والله لرضائي بقضاء الله تعالى في نفسي أحب مما أشتهي!”
― سلمان بن فهد العودة, مع الله

“Map Your Own Journey Go on your own journey. Don’t let others hold you back; don’t hold them back. Don’t judge their journey, and don’t let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to.”
― Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Reflections for Spiritual Growth, Embracing Creativity, and Discovering Your True Purpose

“جبار هو ذاك الذي يكون شعاره في الحياة : " سأتألم , ولكني لن أغلب !".”
― مي زيادة

“كل إمرىء يحيا حياتهُ وعليه أن يجد طريقهُ بين متشعب المسالك, وهو مسؤول عن كل عملٍ يأتيه ويتحمل نتاجه, إن فائدة وإن أذى. فالفتاة التي اعتادت الإنقياد لآراء والديها وعجزت عن إتيان عمل فردي تدفعها إليه إرادتها بالإشتراك مع ضميرها, ما هي إلا عبدة قد تصير في المستقبل "والدة" ولكنها لا تصير "أماً" وإن دعاها أبنائها بهذا الإسم. لأن في الأمومة معنى رفيعاً يسمو بالمرأة إلى الإشراف على النفوس والأفكار والعبدة لا تربي إلا عبيداً. ولا خير في رجالٍ ليس لهم من الرجولة غير ما يدعون, إن هم سادوا فعلوا بالقوة الوحشية وهي مظهر من مظاهر العبودية. أولئك سوف يكونون أبداً أسرى الأهواء وعبيد الصغائر الهابطة بهم إلى حيث لا يعلمون, إلى الفناء المعنوي, إلى الموت في الحياة.”
― مي زيادة

“ما أكثرها عادات تقيّدنا في جميع الأحوال فتجعلنا من المهد إلى اللحد عبيداً ! نتمرّدُ عليها ثم ننفّذ أحكامها مرغمين .”
― مي زيادة, سوانح فتاة

“ليس النبيل من ورث نسبًا ومالًا فاستخفَّ بالناس والأشياء اتكالًا على وراثته،
بل النبيل من خلق نفسه، وما زال بها كلَّ يوم يجددها بعمله ليخلف للمستقبل ثمرة
مجهوداته، النبيل من لا ينتظر
« البخت » و « الحظ » و « الظروف »
تلك الكلمات التي يتمحل،
بها الذليل الخامل، بل ينتهز الفرص ليجعلها صفحاتٍ جليلةً في كتاب عمره. وما الأيام
والساعات سوى فرص ثمينة للنابه يستخرج منها العجائب.”
― مي زيادة, غاية الحياة

“نصحي إليك وإن كرهت الناصحين أن تخرج من نفسك بقدر الإمكان .إن عكفك على ذاتك يزيد عواطفك رقة و تهيجا . احتك بالناس اسمع ثرثرتهم شاركهم فيها ، اخرج إلى الهواء الطلق ، تعاط الألعاب الرياضية .إلعب إلعب ، كن من أبناء جيلك لئلا تتعذب كثيرا”
― مي زيادة

“In every situation you have two choices: Will you learn through fear or will you learn through love? UNIVERSAL”
― Gabrielle Bernstein, The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

“What was most important wasn't knowing the future—it was knowing how to react appropriately to the information available at each point in time.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“For to be unaffected was all that a pretty girl could want to make her mind as captivating as her person.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“The Rules For Being Human 1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid. 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately “works.” 4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson. 5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned. 6. “There” is no better than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here,” you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.” 7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself. 8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. 9. Your answers lie inside you. The answers to Life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. 10. You will forget all this. Chérie Carter-Scott”
― Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

“Romeo and Juliet is synonymous with “romance” in our culture today. It is seen as the love story in English-speaking culture, an emotional ideal to live up to. Yet when you really get down to what happens in the story, these kids are absolutely out of their fucking minds. And they just killed themselves to prove it!”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“حسن الخلق يستر كثيراً من السيئات، كما أن سوء الخلق يغطّي كثيراً من الحسنات.”
― مصطفى السباعي, هكذا علمتني الحياة