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“It’s a strange feeling, praying into your hands, filling the air between them with words. We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small — the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.”
― G. Willow Wilson

“El amor es una amistad con momentos eróticos.”
― Antonio Gala

“I am not a pessimist.
Just a well informed optimist.”
― A. Gala

“No soy pesimista. Soy un optimista bien informado.”
― Antonio Gala

“لعن الله المسافات التى تفرق بين القلوب المتحابة ، وجزى الله الحنين”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, عشاء برفقة عائشة

“Rebellion is necessary for development of character.”
― Cynthia Voight

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“مش كفاية انك تبني حاجة جميلة. المهم انك تحافظ على جمالها.”
― لطيفة الزيات, الباب المفتوح

“لقد كنت قبل اليوم أنكر صاحبي .. إذا لم يكن ديني إلى دينه داني
لقد صارَ قلـبي قابلاً كلَ صُـورةٍ .. فـمرعىً لغـــــزلانٍ ودَيرٌ لرُهبـَــــانِ
ِوبيتٌ لأوثــانٍ وكعـــبةُ طـائـــفٍ .. وألـواحُ تـوراةٍ ومصـحفُ قــــــرآن
أديـنُ بدينِ الحــــبِ أنّى توجّـهـتْ .. ركـائـبهُ ، فالحبُّ ديـني وإيـمَاني”
― محيي الدين بن عربي, ترجمان الأشواق

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“أشخاص كثر نلتقيهم في حياتنا , في مفارق و محطات محددة , ولا نعلم تأثيرهم في مسيرة تحولاتنا العقلية و النفسية إلا بمرور السنين .”
― ربيع جابر, أميركا

“شعرت بالبكاء يفور كالحليب في أعماقها”
― ربيع جابر, أميركا

“لا تجعل ثيابك أغلى شيءٍ فيك , حتى لا تجد نفسك يوماً أرخص ممّا ترتدي”
― جبران خليل جبران

“The exercise of reason is not available only to specialists; it is accessible to everyone.”
― Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

“ألا ترون أننا نحب أن نبتكر شخوصاً نحمّلها كل نواقصنا لنوهم أنفسنا بأننا نخلو من هذه النواقص؟”
― محيي الدين اللباد, كشكول الرسام

“الإنسان كثيراً ما يندهش (وأحياناً يرفض) ما يتعارض مع الأفكار التي ثبتها في دماغه، حتى لو كانت لا تحتمل الثبات!”
― محيي الدين اللباد, كشكول الرسام

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.”
― Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”
― Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”
― George Saunders

“This may be the one clear truth of the so-called border issue: Put a poor country next to a rich one and watch which way the traffic flows. Add impediments, the traffic endeavors to flow around them. Eilimate disparity. the traffic stops.”
― George Saunders

“A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are all alone.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana