Ghaidaa Kotb

“الحب البشرى طفولة قلب, هو حماقة إذا تجاوز حدوده .. وإنما يصير نضجا وحكمة إذا كنت تحب المصور لا الصورة .. و ترى كل ما تراه من جمال يشرى أثرا من أثار إبداعه”
― أحمد بهجت, حوار بين طفل ساذج وقط مثقف

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“هذا ما ستقوله في كل مرة تحب فيها, ستقسم لها على صدقك بضوء القمر أنت تكذب لاحظ ان القمر من المخلوقات التي لاتثبت عل حال , من بدر إلى هلال إلى لا شئ أنت تقسم على حبك , انت تكذب
أو لعلك صادق مؤقتا, والصدق المؤقت لون من ألوان الكذب هو صدق في لحظة زمنية ما وهو كذب في لحظة زمنية أخرى .”
― أحمد بهجت, حوار بين طفل ساذج وقط مثقف

“I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It