Mariam > Mariam's Quotes

“No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.”
― John MacQuarrie, Existentialism: An Introduction, Guide, and Assessment

“لأننا إذا أكلنا جسدا مبذولا ولم نبذل أنفسنا، فكيف ندعي الاتحاد؟”
― متى المسكين, الصوم الأربعيني المقدس

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can survive with the bomb, revolution and the destruction of the balance of nature. He usurps more and more of nature and takes it under his control. The vital question for him, therefore, is how this world which he has usurped can be human- ized.36 His main problem is no longer the universal finitude which he experiences in solidarity with all other creatures, but the humanity of his own world.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”
― Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love

“When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and to laugh at the illusion. But my shoulders are very frail. I was unable to bear the weight of the world's condemnation. And I began to hate you when everything about you would have kindled my love and when love would have made men's contempt unbearable, and their contempt would have made my love unbearable. The fact is, I hate you.”
― Jean Genet

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured – rather it spreads”
― St. John of Kronstadt

“ليس من اليسير الإسهاب في الكلام مع امرأة ذات قروح روحية وأخرى جسمية، فقد ينطق اللسان بما يخدش أو تكون الألفاظ حمّالة أوجهٍ وتخريجات.”
― بنسالم حميش, هذا الأندلسي

“فهي لم تكن تملك , في مقابلة عالم التفاهة الّذي يحيط بها , إلا سلاحاً واحداً : الكُتب !”
― ميلان كونديرا

“أن نخون ، هو أن نخرج من الصف ونسير في المجهول”
― ميلان كونديرا

“ليس الأمر إنهما يتبادلان الكراهية ، أو أن اللامبالاة حلّت محل الحب .. لا تستطيعين قياس المحبة المتبادلة بين كائنين بشريين بكمية الكلمات التي يتبادلانها !”
― ميلان كونديرا, Identity

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Goethe

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“إن التكفل بالمجانين يفضي بالشيطان نفسه إلى الضرر المبين -على لسان الشيطان مفستوفيلس.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!”
― George Gamow, The Creation of the Universe

“أدوات مثل تويتر وفيسبوك «تمنح حق الكلام لفيالق من الحمقى، ممن كانوا يتكلمون في البارات فقط بعد تناول كأس من النبيذ، دون أن يتسببوا بأي ضرر للمجتمع، وكان يتم إسكاتهم فوراً. أما الآن فلهم الحق بالكلام مثلهم مثل من يحمل جائزة نوبل. إنه غزو البلهاء».”
― أمبرتو إيكو

“ومع ذلك، فقد كنت هنا! مررت من هنا! بالرغم مما قد يقع، لا تنسني!”
― Milan Kundera

“الناس موتى وأهل الحب أحياء”
― الحلاج

“اذا هجرتَ فمـن لـي ومـن يجمّل كـلّي
ومـن لروحي وراحي يا أكثـري وأقـلّي
أَحَبَّـكَ البعض مـنـّي فقد ذهبت بكـــلّي
يا كـلّ كـلّي فكـنْ لي إنْ لم تكن لي فمن لي
يا كـل كـلّي و أهـلي عنـد انقطاعي وذلّي
ما لي سوى الروح خذها والـروح جهد المقلّ ِ”
― الحلاج, الحلاج: الأعمال الكاملة

“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Travesuras de la niña mala

“المحبة تدوم بغير قلقلة عند من اتحدوا في الفكر واهتموا أن يريدوا معا وأن يرفضوا معا نفس الأمور. - أبا يوسف الطوباوي.”
― متى المسكين, لقد وجدنا يسوع