Mohamed Elsharnouby

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“عندما نعيش لذواتنا، تبدو الحياة قصيرة ضئيلة تبدأ من حيث نعي، وتنتهى بانتهاء عمرنا المحدود. أما عندما نعيش لغيرنا، أى عندما نعيش لفكرة، فإن الحياة تبدو طويلة، عميقة. تبدأ من حيث بدأت الإنسانية وتمتد بعد مفارقتنا لوجه هذه الأرض، إننا نربح أضعاف عمرنا الفردى فى هذه الحالة نربحها حقيقة لا وهماً”
― سيد قطب, أفراح الروح

“At night I would return home, set out a lamp before me, and devote myself to reading and writing. Whenever sleep overcame me or I became conscious of weakening, I would turn aside to drink a cup of wine, so that my strength would return to me. Then I would return to reading. And whenever sleep seized me I would see those very problems in my dream; and many questions became clear to me in my sleep. I continued in this until all of the sciences were deeply rooted within me and I understood them as is humanly possible. Everything which I knew at the time is just as I know it now; I have not added anything to it to this day. Thus I mastered the logical, natural, and mathematical sciences, and I had now reached the science.”
― Avicenna Ibn Sina