Tarek Saied > Tarek's Quotes

“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“They all overvalued the importance of stability.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“أظلم الأوقات في تاريخ الأمم هي الأوقات التي يؤمن فيها الانسان بأن الشر هو الطريق الوحيد للخير”
― أحمد مراد, تراب الماس

“أعرض عن الجاهل السفيه


فكل مـا قـال فهـو فيـه


ما ضر بحر الفرات يومـاً


إن خاض بعض الكلاب فيه”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Gold tests with fire, woman with gold, man with woman”
― Seneca

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“أحد الصالحين كان يجلس في حفرة ويقول {قالَ رَبِّ ارْجِعُونِ **لَعَلِّي أَعْمَلُ صَالِحاً } ، ثم ينهض قائلًا لنفسه : ها قد عدت ، فأرنا ماذا تفعل ؟”
― كريم الشاذلي, أفكار صغيرة لحياة كبيرة

“Allah will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercy to other creatures.”
― Prophet Mohammad s.a.w, القرآن الكريم

“When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!”
― Jim Elliot, The Journals of Jim Elliot

“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
― Frank Zappa

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne

“There's no love like the first.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”
― Albert Einstein

“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.”
― Robert Greene

“The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.”
― Robert Greene

“Become who you are by learning who you are.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“There are no wrong roads to anywhere.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth