

“وأنا أحبكِ وأريد منكِ أن تحبيني، ولكنّي لا أريد منكِ أن تفني كيانك فى كيانى ولا فى كيان أي إنسان. ولا أريد لك أن تستمدى ثقتك فى نفسك وفى الحياة مني أو من أي أنسان. أريد لك كيانك الخاص المستقل، والثقة التى تنبعث من النفس لا من الآخرين.
وإذ ذاك –عندما يتحقق لكِ هذا- لن يستطيع أحد أن يحطمك، لا أنا ولا أي مخلوق. إذ ذاك فقط، تستطيعين أن تلطمي من يلطمك وتستأنفى المسير. وإذ ذاك فقط تستطيعين أن تربطي كيانك بكيان الآخرين، فيزدهر كيانك وينمو ويتجدد، وإذ ذاك فقط تحققين السعادة فأنتِ تعيسة يا حبيبتي، وقد حاولتِ، ولم تستطيعي، أن تخفى عنى تعاستك.
وستجدين حبًا، أكبر منِّى ومنكِ، حبًا كبيرًا، حبًا جميلًا، حبًا لا يستطيع أحد أن يسلبك إياه، حبًا تجدين دائمًا صداه يتردد فى الأذن، وينعكس فى القلب، ويكبر به الإنسان ويشتد.
فانطلقي يا حبيبتي، افتحى الباب عريضًا على مصراعيه، واتركيه مفتوحًا..
وفى الطريق المفتوح ستجدينني يا حبيبتي، أنتظرك، لأنى أثق بك، وأثق في قدرتك على الانطلاق، ولأنى لا أملك سوى الانتظار ..انتظارك.”
― الباب المفتوح
وإذ ذاك –عندما يتحقق لكِ هذا- لن يستطيع أحد أن يحطمك، لا أنا ولا أي مخلوق. إذ ذاك فقط، تستطيعين أن تلطمي من يلطمك وتستأنفى المسير. وإذ ذاك فقط تستطيعين أن تربطي كيانك بكيان الآخرين، فيزدهر كيانك وينمو ويتجدد، وإذ ذاك فقط تحققين السعادة فأنتِ تعيسة يا حبيبتي، وقد حاولتِ، ولم تستطيعي، أن تخفى عنى تعاستك.
وستجدين حبًا، أكبر منِّى ومنكِ، حبًا كبيرًا، حبًا جميلًا، حبًا لا يستطيع أحد أن يسلبك إياه، حبًا تجدين دائمًا صداه يتردد فى الأذن، وينعكس فى القلب، ويكبر به الإنسان ويشتد.
فانطلقي يا حبيبتي، افتحى الباب عريضًا على مصراعيه، واتركيه مفتوحًا..
وفى الطريق المفتوح ستجدينني يا حبيبتي، أنتظرك، لأنى أثق بك، وأثق في قدرتك على الانطلاق، ولأنى لا أملك سوى الانتظار ..انتظارك.”
― الباب المفتوح

“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.”
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“Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.”
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Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness, and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end, because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it'll shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.”
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“Hold your ground, gold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when then courage of men fails. When we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dead on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!”
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“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
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