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"نعيش لكي ننمو، وبنموّنا تنمو الحياة.
نعيش لكي ينمو كل واحد منا بأسلوبه، وبأسلوبه يساهم في نمو الحياة.
حياة كل واحد منا هي إجابة شخصية عن السؤال، لماذا نعيش؟ فلا إجابة تشبه إجابة، ولا إجابة تكتمل في النهاية،
كما لا توجد إجابة عامة."

“No matter how good you are, you can always get better and that’s the exciting part”

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

“He wasn’t so much removed from humanity as sitting on the sidelines”

“The fact that silence intimidates people puzzled me, because for me, silence is normal and comforting”

“Have you ever been sick ? “ she asked
“No, you need contact with other humans to get sick” he answered

“We have lived quite enough for others: let us live at least this tail-end of life for ourselves. Let us bring our thoughts and reflections back to ourselves and to our own well-being. let us disentangle ourselves from those violent traps which pledge us to other things and which distance us from ourselves.“

“misery meant feeling out of place, in one’s home, one’s family, and one’s city.”

“But what I am trying to describe now is not the melancholy of Istanbul but the hüzün -حُزن- in which we see ourselves reflected, the hüzün we absorb with pride and share as a community. To feel this hüzün is to see the scenes, evoke the memories, in which the city itself becomes the very illustration, the very essence, of hüzün.”

“It must have been then I first came to realize that for most people life was not a joy to be embraced with a full heart but a miserable charade to be endured with a false smile, a narrow path of lies, punishment, and repression.”

"Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)"

“After all, a woman who doesn’t love cats is never going to make a man happy.”

“ ‘Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.“

“Even if you're not happy, even when you're having the worst day of your life. All sorrows fade away when you're surrounded by your family.”

“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”

though life is fleeting and sometimes filled with darkness, the beauty to be found offers a perpetual source of wonder to those who seek it. Your life is made for your searchingnot for a predefined destination, but for the joy of discovery and the satisfaction of knowing that your efforts are making a positive difference in the world. So go forth and explore with an open mind and a generous heart.

“..they said I was nuts, but I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Because if your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

“Instead of focusing on what you leave behind, generativity is about what you give now—actively contributing to your community, creating opportunities for others, and sharing your experiences in ways that enable collective growth. Unlike legacy, which often fixates on leaving an outsized enduring mark, generativity is found in smaller everyday interactions and contributions”

“the illiterate of our times will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”

“Nobody likes to worry their loved ones, and social conformity may seem to offer the path of least resistance. But it isn’t without costs. For the sake of external validation or simply to appease other people, you may find yourself following the Crowdpleaser script and pursuing a conformist path instead of following your curiosity. You might live a dream life, but whose dream is it?”

“Our goals are often not even our own; we borrow them from peers, celebrities, and what we imagine society expects from us. French philosopher René Girard called
this phenomenon “mimetic desire”: we desire something because we see others desiring it. In other words, our goals mimic the goals of others.”

“are we not so corrupted that it would be hard to detect our true nature?Isn’t the mirror of our consciousness so blurred by the layers of civilization and culture that it would be virtually impossible to recognize our true, natural face?Isn’t the process of alienation so profound as to render our anamnetic process ineffective?How can one recognize one’s own nature if one has no recollection of it anymore?”

“Selfishness is one of the surest sign of profound unhappiness”

“She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.”

« ..after all I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. »

« when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all. »

"انا نادم على الساعات التي أمضيتها بعيداً عن الأحبة. على ضحكات ادخرتها لأوقات تخيلت أنها ستكون أكثر سعادة ولم تأتِ أبداً. على أحلام لم أتحلَّ بالشجاعة كي أحلمها. على أشخاص لم أتعرف عليهم لأني سجين نفسي القلقة والخائفة من المجهول."

Genetic evolution moves a lot less quickly than human history, making relics of much about our minds and bodies. It should be no wonder that we often eat too much, develop backache, tremble at the thought of sharks and get statistics entirely wrong. Narrowly speaking, it isn't our fault. It's just that a lot of who we are and what we want made a lot more sense in a world that no longer exists.

we can throw off the veil of illusion that works to separate us from the universe and start to identify with cosmic totality. It no longer matters exactly where we end and others begin; everything belongs to the same whole. There is a little less reason to grasp, to be puffed up, to be proud or to become embittered. We can survey the course of our lives and of our societies with calm indifference.

 »we should not be harsh or unjust toward  ourselves. We didn't personally make the world and we aren't individually responsible for its fate » .