Reemaz

“إذا علمت أن الله معك.. لم يبق في قلبك اضطراب من تشويش الأسباب”
― ابن القيم الجوزية

“سأل رجل الشافعي رحمه الله فقال: يا أبا عبد الله، أيُّما أفضل للرجل: أن يمكن أوأن يبتلى؟ فقال الشافعي: لا يمكَّن حتى يبتلى، فإن الله ابتلى نوحاً، وإبراهيم، وموسى، وعيسى، ومحمداً صلوات الله وسلامه عليهم، فلما صبروا مكنهم، فلا يظن أحد أنه يخلص من الألم البتة.”
― ابن قيّم الجوزية, الفوائد

“But sometimes you simply can't make yourself feel like acting. And in those situations, motivational advice risks making things worse, by surreptitiously strengthening your belief that you need to feel motivated before you act. By encouraging an attachment to a particular emotional state, it actually inserts an additional hurdle between you and your goal. The subtext is that if you can't make yourself feel excited and pleased about getting down to work, then you can't get down to work.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot