Sarah Sobeh > Sarah's Quotes

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

“Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.”
― Locke John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume II

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.”
― Henrik Ibsen, The Doll's House: A Play

“I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“ليس أتعس من الحظ السيء إلا الرضا به”
― نجيب محفوظ

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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

“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.”
― Robert Browning, The complete poetical works of Browning

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“العطاء من دون حُب لا قيمة له ، و الأخذ من دون إمتنان لا طعم له”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“لكل منا دينه الخاص، نأخذ من الأديان ما نؤمن به، ونتجاهل مالا تدركه عقولنا، أو، نتظاهر بالإيمان، ونمارس طقوساً لا نفهمها، خوفاً من خسارة شئ نحاول أن نؤمن به.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“كلما شعرت بالحاجة إلى شخص يحدثني .. فتحت كتابًا ..”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“ليس المؤلم أن يكون للإنسان ثمناً بخس ، بل الألم ، كل الألم ، أن يكون للإنسان ثمن.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“النمطيون لا يسألون الله إلا حُسن الخاتمة والنجاة من النار، وينسون أن يسألوه علماً وفهماً وعملاً وتطوراً، وبنية تحتية وتكنولوجيا حديثة، واستقراراً سياسياً واقتصاداً متيناً، فالموت عندهم راحة من كل هذا. النمطيون يبنون بيوتاً، ولكنهم لا يبنون مدينة، يزرعون شجرة ولا يزرعون حديقة.. النمطيون لا يعلمون، ولا يريدون أن يعلموا، ويُحبون أن يُصنّفوا ما يجهلونه تحت باب «عِلمٌ لا ينفع».
النمطية داء حضاري، يورِث الدّعة، ويدعو إلى الاستسلام والتسليم. الاستسلام لا يحقق السلام، العمل الصادق وحده يمنح الإنسان سلاماً فوق الأرض وتحتها.
النمطية عبودية شفافة، لا يراها الإنسان إلا عندما يبدأ بالتلوين. لوّن حياتك، ولا تخشَ أن يُقال عنك مجنون، فذروة العقل الجنون. لوّن حتى يعرفك الناس، وحتى تعرف نفسك .”
― ياسر حارب

“إن أسوأ سلب لحرية الإنسان لا يكمن بحبسه في السجن و لكن في سلبه قدرته على الاختيار”
― ياسر حارب, بيكاسو وستاربكس

“لماذا ألتقي بالناس كل يوم ولا ألقاك يوما؟
لماذا كل الأشياء من حولي تحن إليك ولا تدلني عليك؟”
― ياسر حارب

“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
― Albert Schweitzer