رُضوانٌ

“ما الفقر ؟
ليس الفقر هو الجوع الى المأكل او العرى الى الكسوة ،الفقر هو القهر
الفقر هو استخدام الفقر لاذلال الروح
الفقر هو استغلال الفقر لقتل الحب وزرع البغضاء”
― صلاح عبد الصبور, مأساة الحلاج

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down.

Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness

“هذه التعاسةُ الرماديّةُ
في عينيك
ما سرُّها؟
وماذا أستطيعُ أن أفعلَ
.كي ألوّنَها؟”
― سوزان عليوان, لا أشبه أحدًا

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt