Yasser > Yasser's Quotes

“Tell me a joke and I will know how you behave ~
Tell me a quote and I may be your wise slave”
― Yasser Kashef

“Life is too short to turn it into a court”
― Yasser Kashef

“Smile even if your burdens are awfully heavy.Smile even if your face is seized by wrinkles.Smile even if your teeth suffer from deformity Just SMILE”
― Yasser Kashef

“Be unique in your choices ... As the nightingale among voices”
― Yasser Kashef

“Do not worry solitude is friendly at least it is more bearable than the company of hypocrites”
― Yasser Kashef

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“The pure heart that sorrow cleaves
Is more fragile than autumn leaves”
― Yasser Kashef, Living Memories I Relish

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“We play among dense fields of sugarcane
Shaking a citrus tree to taste its rain
From scorching sun, we always flee,
Panting for an old shadowy tree”
― Yasser Kashef, Living Memories I Relish

“A smile is not only two curves at the corners of your mouth. A smile is a peaceful feeling in your heart that forces your gloomy face to be bright.”
― Yasser Kashef

“Once you hide the truth, truth will always be your unbearable burden.”
― Yasser Kashef

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.”
― John Masefield, King Cole

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“They forget that the Woman is the source of mercy and joy
Many men do respect her greatness, except the playboy
We sail in life searching for fair equality
We should not focus on gender but our humanity”
― Yasser Kashef

“Good deeds sometimes are a matter of overcompensation.”
― Yasser Kashef

“Insult is like boomerang. Every time you throw it, it turns back to you.”
― Yasser Kashef

“What begins with a capital letter, ends with a full stop.”
― Yasser Kashef

“The most high level of freedom is death, when our bodies liberate our spirits in order to reach the transparent sea of light . Thus, do not fear death in your search for freedom.”
― Yasser Kashef

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“كل هؤلاء المئات / الآلاف / الملايين من الأشخاص الذين تقع عيناك عليهم وقت ركوبك لوسائل المواصلات لثانية أو اثنتين ولا تراهم ثانيةً – إنهم بالتأكيد يفعلون أشياء أكثر أهمية من أن يكونوا مجرد كومبارسات يظهرون في حياتك !”
― أحمد صبري غباشي

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“You carried me nine months before bringing me to life
You polished my talent when I was less than five
You always grant me mirth and surround me with angelic care
Hence, giving you the world’s treasures are still not fair
God created you to be the source of mercy on this hard planet
You are the one who taught me speaking and every good habit
I always pray to God during prostration and when I kneel
That he bless your time and make me under your heel”
― Yasser Kashef