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

“إنهم يريدون أن يفتحوا العالم وهم عاجزون عن فتح كتاب
ويريدون أن يخوضوا البحر وهم يتزحلقون بقطرة ماء
ويبشرون بثورة ثقافية تحرق الأخضر واليابس ، وثقافتهم لاتتجاوز باب المقهى الذي يجلسون فيه ، وعناوين الكتب المترجمة التي سمعوا عنها”
― نزار قباني, الكتابة عمل انقلابي

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”
― Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“الفتن التي تتخفى وراء قناع الدين تجارة رائجة جدًا في عصور التراجع الفكري للمجتمعات”
― ابن خلدون

“يوزن المرء بقوله، ويقوّم بفعله.”
― ابن خلدون

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
― John F. Kennedy

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
― Noam Chomsky

“A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

“If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.”
― Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
― Khalil Gibran

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
― Khalil Gibran

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”
― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“المرء ليس دائما هو كيف انتهى وليس كيف بدأ؛ فقد ينتهي بما بدأ أو لم يبدأ بما انتهى. إننا ما نصير إليه”
― محمد شكري, وجوه

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”
― Luis Borges

“If I could live again my life,
In the next - I'll try,
- to make more mistakes,
I won't try to be so perfect,
I'll be more relaxed...
I'll take fewer things seriously..
I'll take more risks,
I'll take more trips,
I'll watch more sunsets,
I'll climb more mountains,
I'll swim more rivers,
I'll go to more places I've never been
I'll eat more ice ...I'll have more real problems and less imaginary ones

If I could live again - I will travel light
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet at the beginning of spring till the end of autumn,
I'll watch more sunrises ...If I have the life to live”
― Anonymous

“الصداقه دائماً أقوى من الحب ، ولهذا شوارع الصداقة متقاطعة ومتعانقة ، أما شوارع الحب فحيثما تتقاطع هناك شارات إتجاه ممنوع”
― فضيلة الفاروق

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and--sans End!

Alike for those who for To-day prepare,
And those that after some To-morrow stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.”
― Omar Khayyam, رباعيات خيام

“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“إن الذي يعرف حقا كيف يحيا وحده هو الذي يعرف فعلا كيف يعيش برفقة الآخرين.”
― أوكتافيو باث

“He is astonished at the fact of his being, and this astonishment leads to reflection: as he leans over the river of his consciousness, he asks himself if the face that appears there, disfigured by the water, is his own. The singularity of his being, which is pure sensation in children, becomes a problem and a question”
― Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman