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“للنفس ساعات تنشط فيها للخير، وساعات تحرن فيها، فإذا نشطت فأكثر،
وإذا حرنت فأقصر، فإنك إن كرهتها على الخير وهي لا تريده كانت كالدابة التي تركبها
مرغمة، لا تأمن أن تلقي بك وأنت حطمة .”
― هكذا علمتني الحياة
وإذا حرنت فأقصر، فإنك إن كرهتها على الخير وهي لا تريده كانت كالدابة التي تركبها
مرغمة، لا تأمن أن تلقي بك وأنت حطمة .”
― هكذا علمتني الحياة
“كان من المؤلم جداً أنّ الناس لا يصلون... ولكنه كان من المؤلم أكثر، أنهم إذا صلّوا، ربما لا يتغيّرون”
― المهمة غير المستحيلة: الصلاة بوصفها أداة لإعادة بناء العالم
― المهمة غير المستحيلة: الصلاة بوصفها أداة لإعادة بناء العالم
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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