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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”
― Victor Hugo

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
― Victor Hugo

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
― Victor Hugo

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
― Victor Hugo

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.”
― Victor Hugo, Quatrevingt-Treize

“God knows better than we do what we need.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it.

I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.”
― Anton Chekhov

“هكذا تعمل هذه الأيديولوجيات ، على أن تلغي من مشكلات الإنسان العربي كل ما يختزن أبعاداً مشكلية ، أي كل ما يكشف عنه بشكل أعمق وأشمل ، فلا تبقي منها إلا ما يظهره كائناً مسطحاً - يكتفي بأن يأكل وينام . كأنها في ذلك تطمح إلى أن ترث السلفي ، وأن تحل محله : ترث (( الإنائية )) الواضحة ، حيث المعرفة إناء جاهز ، وليس لك ، أنت ياطالب المعرفة ، لكي تعرف وتتقدم ،إلا أن تجلس خاشعاً أمامه ، تتملاه وتغرف منه ما تشاء . وسترى حينذاك أن لكل سؤال جوابه الجاهز ، الكامل ، بل لن تجد أيّ سؤال تسأله ، لأن المشكلات والأشياء كلها ، موضحة بشكل يقيني ونهائي .. وهاهي أمامك تسبح في ماء هذا الإناء .”
― أدونيس, كلام البدايات

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.”
― Socrates

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov