Marwa Nabil > Marwa's Quotes

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“أذكر تلك المقولة السّاخرة [ ثمة نوعان من الأغبياء : أولئك الذين يشكون
في كل شيء . وأولئك الذين لا يشكون في شيء”
― أحلام مستغانمي, فوضى الحواس

“أكثر الكلمات شعبية فى مصر هى : ماشى .. و لكن لا شئ يمشي .. أو أنه يمشى و لكن ليس قويماً سليماً ...

نحن كذلك - أنيس منصور”
― أنيس منصور, نحن كذلك

“يقولون ان الحياة لا توجه أقوى ضربتها الا الى أولئك الذين تثق تمام أنهم قادرون على تحملها ..لذا حاولت ان أتظاهر بالضعف وأقنع نفسى به لعلى أخدعها فتكف عن توجيه ضربتهاالقاصمة لى لكن هيهات ..يبدو انها ليست بالسذاجة التى تصورتها”
― سارة درويش, حكايا السمراء

“فيالها من قسوة أن تشتاق ضمّة وكلما ذهبت إليها احتضنت الفراغ
ويالها من لوعة وألم والبرودة تحتل جسدك فلا تجد يد دافئة تدثر قلبك ولو بغطاء شفاف
انه ألم الفقد في الصغر نقش على الروح والقلب !”
― رشا محمد نعمان, رسائل إلى غريب

“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.'
'Seventeen,' Gus corrected.
'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.
'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.
'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'
I was kind of crying by then.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars