Quotes - Rania (raniaelmofty) (Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 56

#1

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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#2

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#3

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

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#4

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

tags: courage, happiness, work

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#5

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

tags: black-and-white, color, photography, street-photography

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#6

“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

tags: creativity, failure, original

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#7

“Creativity is as important as literacy”
― Ken Robinson

tags: creativity, ken-robinson, school-system, ted-talks

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#8

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

tags: art, love, profound

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#9

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

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#10

“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: action, deeds, game, lying, playing, responsibility

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#11

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Tony Kushner, Perestroika

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#12

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

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#13

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#14

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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#15

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: reading

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#16

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

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#17

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

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#18

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#19