Quotes - Mohammed Hamdy (Cairo, 11, Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 63

#1

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

tags: books, light, reading

#2

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#3

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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#4

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
― H.G. Wells

tags: truth

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#5

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#6

“إذا استطاع المرء أن يشعر بأن بقاءه إنساناً هو أمر يستحق التضحية من أجله، حتى لو لم يؤدِّ ذلك إلى نتيجة، فإنه يكون قد ألحق بهم الهزيمة.”
― جورج أورويل, 1984

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#7

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#8

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#9

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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#10

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#11

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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#12

“I will drink life to the lees.”
― Alfred Tennyson

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#13

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational, life, yourself

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#14

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: philosophy

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#15

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy

10776 likes

#16

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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#17

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

tags: life

2206 likes

#18

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

2618 likes

#19

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

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#20

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

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#21

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

tags: inspirational

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#22