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“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world – wide brotherhood. Together we must learn to live as brothers or together we will be forced to perish as fools.

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.”
― Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“Romance is the sweetening of the soul
With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.”
― Wole Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel

“أي علم هذا الذي لم يستطع حتى الآن أن يضع أصوات من نحب في أقراص ، أو زجاجة دواء نتناولها سرًّا ، عندما نصاب بوعكة عاطفية بدون أن يدري صاحبها كم نحن نحتاجه”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عابر سرير

“أجمل حب هو الذي نعثر عليه أثناء بحثنا عن شيء آخر”
― أحلام مستغانمي

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“نعم ، يضنيني الحنين . ولكن ليس إلى الوطن وحده . أحن لزمن، لزمن مضى ولن أعيشه من جديد ، أبداً. أشتاق لعاشق كان لي، ولن يكون لي من جديد ...أبداً.”
― أهداف سويف, زينة الحياة

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“العــشـق : مـرض نـتـخـيـّل أننـا نـشـفـى مـنـه .. فـقـط لأن لا أحـد يـمـوت بـسـبـبـه نـظـريـا”
― أحمد مراد, الفيل الأزرق