Ghaidaa Kotb

“لا أعرف كيف أشرح لك الحب ..ولكنه شعور يجعلك تحس أنك قد عثرت على السر ..هو شيء رائع و ممتع”
― أحمد بهجت, حوار بين طفل ساذج وقط مثقف

“I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“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