Abdalrhman Adel

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“ساعات أقوم الصبح قلبى حزين
أطل بره الباب ياخدنى الحنين
اللى لقيته ضاع
واللى اشتريته انباع
واللى قابلته راح وفات الأنين

وارجع واقول
لسه الطيور بتفنّ
والنحلايات بتطنّ
والطفل ضحكه يرنّ
مع ان مش كل البشر فرحانين

حبيبى سكر مر طعم الهوى
فرق ما بيننا البين ماعدناش سوا
حرام عليك يا عذاب
نبقى كده اغراب
ده البعد والله جرح من غير دوا

آدى اللى كان وآدى القدر وآدى المصير
نودع الماضى و حلمه الكبير
نودع الأفراح نودع الأشباح
راح اللى راح ماعدش فاضل كتير

ايه العمل فى الوقت ده يا صديق
غير اننا عندافتراق الطريق
نبص قدامناعلى شمس أحلامنا
نلقاها بتشق السحاب الغميق

وارجع واقول
لسه الطيور بتفنّ
والنحلايات بتطنّ
والطفل ضحكه يرنّ
مع ان مش كل البشر فرحانين”
― صلاح جاهين

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit.
It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy Long Legs

“ هناك شخص في داخلي يريد أن يحكي و يحكي و يحكي .. هناك شخص آخر يريدني أن أسكت .. أن أسكت أبدياً و ألّا أفتح فمي مرة أخرى ”
― ربيع جابر, الاعترافات