Hadeer Maher > Hadeer's Quotes

“ليه نقعد فى مصر ؟

علشان هنا فيه حياة, فيه مجتمع مفنجل, فيه ديليفرى الساعة 4 الصبح , قهاوى على مدار الساعة , موبايلك فيه نمر بالعبيط لناس تفضفض معاهم وتحس انك انسان فيه حد مهتم بيك , العالم الغربى عالم وحيد بالنسبة لينا , كئيب حتى على ناسه اللى اتربوا فيه , عالم بينام بدرى وبيقفل زرار الياقة وخنيق , احنا عندنا مجتمع صوته عالى , وعشرى ودا مهم للنفسية فعلا .”
― عمرو سلامة, شاب كشك في رحلة البحث عن الجادون

“كانت أحاديث السهرة تدور
فقلت :
حدثونا عن غير الموت
قالوا: نحكي عن الحرب
قلت: عن غير الحرب
قالوا: نحكي عن دموع المشردين
قلت: عن غير دموعهم
قالوا: عن المنتظرين
قلت: عن غير المنتظرين
قالوا: لا نعرف غير هذا فعمّ نحكي
قلت: اسهروا كما تسهر الحيطان
لا تتكلموا عن شيء
وانظروا بعضكم الى بعض
علّ الوجوه تتحادث”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“حينما ينعم الحاكم في أي دولة بالترف والنعمة، تلك الأمور تستقطب إليه ثلة من المرتزقين والوصوليين الذين يحجبونه عن الشعب، ويحجبون الشعب عنه، فيصلون له من الأخبار أكذبها، ويصدون عنه الأخبار الصادقة التي يعاني منه الشعب.”
― ابن خلدون

“قالت ضحى: وماذا تقصد أنت بالشر؟
لم أفكر فى هذا من قبل الآن.. ولكن أظن أننى طول عمرى أكره القهر. قهر الإنسان بالفقر وقهره بالخوف، وأهم من ذلك قهره بالجهل. أن يعيش الإنسان ويموت دون أن يعرف أن فى الدنيا علماً فاته وجمالاً فاته وحياة لم يعشها أبداً.”
― بهاء طاهر, قالت ضحى

“لو نزلت الجامع اللي جنب بيتكو تقولهم وطوا صوت الميكروفون ده لإنه عالي ومزعج , حتلاقيهم واقفينلك كإنهم بيدافعوا عن الحضارة الإسلامية المنقرضه , مع إنهم بيدافعوا عن فعل قبيح ودميم ولا له أدنى علاقة بالدين , الإسلام مافيهوش ولا ميكروفونات ولا سماعات كبيرة ولا أصوات أحيانا أنكر من صوت الحمير وفاكرين نفسهم النقشبندي .”
― أحمد العسيلي

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath

“النسيان شكل من أشكال الحرية”
― جبران خليل جبران, رمل وزبد

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“التواضع ليس صفة متواضعة، بل هو صورة متقدمة من الغرور. التواضع يقتدي أن تكون في مكانه مرتفعة وتهبط بنفسك عمدًا لمستوى من هم أدنى، كرمًا منك، لا أن تعتبر نفسك في هذا المستوى. كي تكون متواضعًا يجب أن تعتبر نفسك فوق مستوى الآخرين ابتداءً، كن متواضعًا حين ذاك.”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, عناق عند جسر بروكلين

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“ميت ألف راجل بما فيهم من الشنبات
ما يجوش في ضافر صباع واحده من الستات
مهوش عجب - كل يوم تتقلب البورصات
سعر النهارده الأراضي تنقلب سماوات”
― بيرم التونسي

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
― Dr. Seuss

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”
― Gloria Steinem

“غالبية القراء العرب يحسبون كل رواية رعب: "دراكيولا", وكل رواية خيال علمي: "آلة الزمن", وكل رواية غموض: "أجاثا كريستي"!”
― وائل رداد

“You can have it all, just not all at the same time.”
― Betty Friedan

“In the United States I saw how the market liberates the individual and allows people to be free to make personal choices. But the biggest drawback was that the market always pushes things to the side of the powerful. I thought the poor should be able to take advantage of the system in order to improve their lot.
Grameen is a private-sector self-help bank, and as its members gain personal wealth they acquire water-pumps, latrines, housing, education, access to health care, and so on.
Another way to achieve this is to let abusiness earn profit that is then txed by the government, and the tax can be used to provide services to the poor. But in practice it never works that way. In real life, taxes only pay for a government bureaucracy that collects the tax and provides little or nothing to the poor. And since most government bureaucracies are not profit motivated, they have little incentive to increase their efficiency. In fact, they have a disincentive: governments often cannot cut social services without a public outcry, so the behemoth continues, blind and inefficient, year after year.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

“The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
― Paula Fox

“أنا لا أخشى على الإنسان الذى يفكّر وإن ضلّ، لأنّه سيعود إلى الحق، ولكني أخشي على الإنسان الذي لا يفكّر وإن اهتدى، لأنّه سيكون كالقشة في مهب الريح.”
― محمد الغزالي

“I'll tell you something banal.We're emotional illiterates.And not only you and I-practically everybody,that's the depressing thing.We're taught everything about the body and about agriculture in Madagascar and about the square root of pi, or whatever the hell it's called,but not a word about the soul.We're abysmally ignorant,about both ourselves and others.There's a lot of loose talk nowadays to the effect that children should be brought up to know all about brotherhood and understanding and coexistence and equality and everything else that's all the rage just now.But it doesn't dawn on anyone that we must first learn something about ourselves and our own feelings.Our own fear and loneliness and anger.We're left without a chance,ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.To make a child aware of it's soul is something almost indecent.You're regarded as a dirty old man.How can you understand other people if you don't know anything about yourself?Now you're yawning,so that's the end of the lecture.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi