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“وإطراق طرف العين ليس بنافع , إذا كان طرف القلب ليس بمطرق”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“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

“سَأمْدَحُ هذَا الصَّباحَ الجَديد
سَأَنْسَى اللَّيَالَي، كُلَّ اللِّيَالي
وَأَمشِي إلَى وَرْدَةِ الجَار
أَخْطفُ مِنْهَا طَريقَتَهَا فِي الفَرَحْ”
― محمود درويش

“الغائبان: أنا وأنتِ
أنا وأنتِ الغائبان

زوجا يمام أَبيضان
يتَسَامران على غُصون السنديان”
― محمود درويش

“Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn’t live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: ‘I wasted my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery

“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to disappoint anyone; we have a great need to be loved. So we smother the best in us. Gradually, the light of our dreams turns into the monster of our nightmares. They become things not done, possibilities not lived.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery