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“بينما كنت أسير في البادية، إذ مررت بحجر مكتوب عليه هذا البيت:

أيا معشر العشاق بالله خبِّروا ..... إذا حل عشق بالفتى كيف يصنعُ

فكتبت تحته البيت التالي:
يداري هواه ثم يكتم سرَّه ..... ويخشع في كل الأمور ويخضعُ

ثم يقول: عدت في اليوم التالي فوجدت مكتوبا تحته هذا البيت:
وكيف يداري والهوى قاتل الفتى ..... وفي كل يوم قلبه يتقطعُ

فكتبت تحته البيت التالي:
إذا لم يجد صبرًا لكتمان سرِّه ..... فليس له شيء سوى الموت ينفعُ

يقول الأصمعي: فعدت في اليوم الثالث، فوجدت شابًّا ملقىً تحت ذلك الحجر ميتًا، ومكتوبٌ تحته هذان البيتان:
سمعنا أطعنا ثم متنا فبلِّغوا ..... سلامي إلى من كان بالوصل يمنعُ
هنيئًا لأرباب النعيم نعيمهمْ ..... وللعاشق المسكين ما يتجرعُ”
― الأصمعي

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“You're the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing when I go to sleep. You're my sun and moon and stars, my past and present-and I hope you'll be my future.”
― A.G. Henley, The Scourge

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career:”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. You're ready. Start making stuff.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Love can be a very frightening thing.’ ‘That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Love is not everything, Mademoiselle,' Poirot said gently. 'It is only when we are young that we think it is.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“La vie est vaine. Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour. La vie est brève. Un peu d’espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bonsoir.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is done is done. Bitterness will not undo it.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion