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“ومن أطرف المؤسسات الخيرية (في عهد نور الدين زنكي) وقف الزبادي للأولاد الذين يكسرون الزبادي وهم في طريقهم إلى البيت
فيأتون إلى هذه المؤسسة ليأخذوا زبادي جديدة بدلاً من المكسورة .. ثم يرجعوا إلى أهليهم وكأنهم لم يصنعوا شيئاً”
― علي محمد الصلابي, القائد المجاهد نور الدين زنكي

“In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I'll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“I stood in the doorway pondering the difference between naked and nude, and the pizza delivery guy probably wondered if I was going to go put on some clothes and pay him.”
― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

“I’m so lonely, I just need somebody to call me—even if it’s a wrong number. I’m also hungry, so maybe that caller could order me a pizza after they hang up on me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“In high school they called me “Pizza Face.” Not because I had bad acne, though I did, but because I always wore pepperoni and mushrooms on my face.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“Are you cool enough to live on Me street? It’s a one-way street, you know.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“If I were in Steve Prefontaine’s shoes, I’d have done the same thing he did. Except for all that running. I wouldn’t have done that.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“If somebody tells me and my wife to get a room, I always ask, How about the kitchen?”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“My wife must be stupid. I mean, look, she married me, didn’t she?”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It’s all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me in a moment of awesomeness.
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible

“Love is a wonderful gift. It's a present so precious words can barely begin to describe it. Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time. It is a blessing that should be counted every day. It is nourishment for the soul. It is devotion, constantly letting each person know how supportive it's certainty can be. Love is a heart filled with affection for the most important person in your life. Love is looking at the special someone who makes your world go around and absolutely loving what you see. Love gives meaning to one's world and magic to a million hopes and dreams. It makes the morning shine more brightly and each season seem like it's the nicest one anyone ever had. Love is an invaluable bond that enriches every good thing in life. It gives each hug a tenderness, each heart a happiness, each spirit a steady lift. Love is an invisible connection that is exquisitely felt by those who know the joy, feel the warmth, share the sweetness, and celebrate the gift! ”
― Douglas Pagels

“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”
― Isabel Allende

“My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”
― Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune

“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