Marina

“وعمومًا فالكلمات مهما كانت جميلة وعميقة فإنها لا تؤثر إلا في ذوي النفوس اللامبالية، ولا تستطيع دائمًا أن ترضي السعداء أو التعساء. ويبدو أن أسمى تعبير عن السعادة أو التعاسة هو الصمت؛ فالعشاق يفهمون بعضهم بعضًا عندما يصمتون، أما الخطبة الحارة المشبوبة الملقاة على القبر فلا تؤثر إلا في الغرباء، بينما تبدو لأرملة المتوفى وأولاده باردة تافهة.”
― أنطون تشيخوف

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning