Heba Mariey
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“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
― Living by the Word: Essays
― Living by the Word: Essays
“يكفي أن تمسح بإصبعك أي طلاء من طلاءات القاهرة فترى أي تاريخ مكتوب تحته. تاريخ هذه الأمة مختصر هنا، بل تاريخ العالم كله مختصر هنا أيضا. من حكاية واحدة فيه يمكنك أن تجد مداخل حكايات وحكايات. تماما كالملفات المضغوطة، تظل لا تشغل مساحة حتى تفتحها، فإن فتحتها غرقت فيها.”
― الرئيس
― الرئيس
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
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“إلى داخل شرايينك هاجرت, واستوطنت تحت جلدك , وصار نبضك ضربات قلبي , ولم أعد أميّز بين الخيط الأبيض والأسود , وكان جسدكَ بحراً , وكنتُ سمكةً ضالّة , ولم أكن لأعبث بك فأنا أعرف أن من يلعب بالحب هو كمن يلعب التنس بقنبلة يدوية ...”
― أعلنت عليك الحب
― أعلنت عليك الحب
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”
― Voice of Reason
― Voice of Reason
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