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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy

“Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”
― Richard Bach

“There is a twilight zone in our hearts that we ourselves cannot see. Even when we know quite a lot about ourselves-our gifts and weaknesses, our ambitions and aspirations, our motives and our drives-large parts of ourselves remain in the shadow of consciousness. This is a very good thing. We will always remain partially hidden to ourselves. Other people, especially those who love us, can often see our twilight zones better than we ourselves can. The way we are seen and understood by others is different from the way we see and understand ourselves. We will never fully know the significance of our presence in the lives of our friends. That's a grace, a grace that calls us not only to humility, but to a deep trust in those who love us. It is the twilight zones of our hearts where true friendships are born.”
― Henri Nouwen

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is that other person with whom we can share our solitude, our silence, and our prayer. A friend is that other person with whom we can look at a tree and say, "Isn't that beautiful," or sit on the beach and silently watch the sun disappear under the horizon. With a friend we don't have to say or do something special. With a friend we can be still and know that God is there with both of us.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, It Seems to Me: Selected Letters

“هذه نفسي أسائلها : هل تعرف النفوس الوفاء ..؟
لكل حالةٍ لَبُوسها وتتّخذ لكل يوم ميزانه ، فيهون عندها اليوم ما عز بالأمس ، و يرخص ما غلا ويغلو ما رخص ، نرى الشخص فلا نباليه ، وقبلاً كان مناط حبنا ، وكنا نقنع ان كان وصله حظّنا من دنيانا ، او كان موضع إكبارنا وكان رضاه نهاية متمنانا ، ونمر بالمكان لا نلتفت إليه وفيه ذقنا حلو العيش ومُرّه ، وفيه أثر من أنفسنا ، وفيه بقايا من أعمارنا ..”
― علي الطنطاوي, من حديث النفس

“الانسان يبتلى ثم يبتلى ليعرف ان كل مافيه ان هو الا وديعة الغيب فيه ,
فما شاء الله نفع وان كان سبب من الضر , وما شاء الله ضر وان لم يكن الا نفعا”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, رسائل الأحزان

“والقلب الكريم لا ينسى شيئاً أحبه ولا شيئاً ألفه، إذ الحياة فيه إنما هي الشعور،والشعور يتصل بالمعدوم اتصاله بالموجود على قياس واحد، فكأن القلب يحمل فيما يحمل من المعجزات بعض السر الأزلي الذي يحيط بالأبعاد كلها إحاطة واحدة، لأنها كلها كائنة فيه: فليس بينك وبين ما مر من حياتك إلا لحظة من الفكر، هي للماضي أقصر من التفاتة العين للحاضر”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“وترفَّق بصبرك لاتُجهدْه, وبدمعك لا تُفْنِهِ, فإِنهما الزادُ والماءُ لمن يقطع هذه المفازةَ المهلِكة من الدنيا سالماً ولايريد أن يأكل من جِيفها أو يكون فيها جيفةً تؤكل”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, حديث القمر

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“ولما بدا لي أنها لا تحبني * وأن هواها ليس عني بمنجل
تمنيت أن تهوى سوايَ لعلها * تذوق صبابات الهوى فترق لي
وما كان إلا عن قليلٍ وأشغفت * بحب غزال أدعج الطرف أكحلِ
فعذبها حتى أذاب فؤادها * وذوقها طعم الهوى والتدللِ
فقلت لها هذا بذاك فأطرقت * حياءً وقالت كل ظالم مبتلي !!!
https://soundcloud.com/wael-katawy/ab...”
― علي بن عبدالله بن جعفر

“الحاكم فى العالم الثالث مثل شعر الرأس كل ما تحلقه يطلع لك تانى ويجدد نفسه بنفسه”
― جلال عامر

“و تمضي الليالي إلى قبرها
وتمشي الحياةُ مع الموكِبِ
أسير أنا في شعاب الوجود
أفتش عن حلمي المُتعَبِ”
― نازك الملائكة, المختار من شعر نازك الملائكة

“وما الناس الا هالك ابن هالك
وذو نسب في الهالكين عريق ؟”
― أبو نواس, ديوان أبي نواس

“عندي قلم
ممتلئٌ يبحث عن دفتر
و الدفتر يبحث عن شعر
و الشعر بأعماقي مضمر
و ضميري يبحث عن أمن
و الأمن مقيم في المخفر
و المخفر يبحث عن قلم
-عندي قلم
-وقع يا كلب على المحضر”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات - المجموعة الكاملة

“ناس بتعيش علشان حاجة وناس بتموت علشان حاجة وناس بتموت على الحاجة
وناس تديلك الحاجه وهى ليها محتاجه وناس تديلك الحاجه و تاخد قصادها ميت حاجه
وناس تكبر تكون حاجه و ناس تصغر علشان حاجه”
― إيمان بكري, مافيش حاجة

“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”
― Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

“I think we can't go 'round measuring our goodness by what we don't do, what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include.”
― Chocolat