Raha

“While I thus cogitate in disquiet and perplexity, half submerged in dark waters of a well in an Arabian oasis, I suddenly hear a voice from the background of my memory, the voice of an old Kurdish nomad: If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. Whereupon, as if by magic, all disquiet leaves me. I begin to look upon myself with distant eyes, as you might look at the pages of a book to read a story from them; and I begin to understand that my life could not have taken a different course. For when I ask myself, 'What is the sum total of my life?' somthing in me seems to answer, 'You have set out to exchange one world for another-to gain a new world for yourself in exchange for an old one which you never really possessed.' And I know with startling clarity that such an undertaking might indeed take an entire lifetime.”
― Muhammad Asad

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“من المعلوم أنه حين يبتدئ السير إلى الحضارة , لايكون الزاد بطبيعة الحال من العلماء والعلوم , ولا من الإنتاج الصناعي أوالفنون , تلك الأمارات التي تُشير إلى درجة ما من الرُقيّ , بل إن الزاد هو " المبــدأ " الذي يكون أساساً لهذه المنتجات جميعاً .”
― مالك بن نبي, شروط النهضة