Marwa Atef > Marwa's Quotes

“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Nothing on this planet can compare with a woman’s love—it is kind and compassionate, patient and nurturing, generous and sweet and unconditional. Pure. If you are her man, she will walk on water and through a mountain for you, too, no matter how you’ve acted out, no matter what crazy thing you’ve done, no matter the time or demand. If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’re up. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I mean really loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty, encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’s not so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, even when you’re not saying anything worth listening to. And no matter what you do, no matter how many times her friends say you’re no good, no matter how many times you slam the door on the relationship, she will give you her very best and then some, and keep right on trying to win over your heart, even when you act like everything she’s done to convince you she’s The One just isn’t good enough.
That’s a woman’s love—it stands the test of time, logic, and all circumstance. ”
― Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

“I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“لا يجب أن تتحدث عن الحب بل عليك أن تتحدث بحب، فكل النصابين يجيدون أحاديث الهوى... ولا يجب أن تتحدث عن العدل بل يجب عليك أن تتحدث بعدل لأنه لا يجيد الحديث عن العدل مثل الظالمين.”
― إبراهيم أصلان

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles--drug or tattoo--and...no inessential penises either.'

'Inessential penises?' Karou had repeated, delighted with the phrase in spite of her grief. 'Is there any such thing as an essential one?'

'When an essential one comes along, you'll know,' he'd replied.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“أيها الأبله! لا توجد امرأة ضعيفة حتى لو كانت عاشقة”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, تفاصيل الشجن في وقائع الزمن

“The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship, was that one had to explain nothing”
― Katherine Mansfield

“For the special thrilling quality of their friendship was in their complete surrender. Like two open cities in the midst of some vast plain their two minds lay open to each other. And it wasn't as if he rode into hers like a conqueror, armed to the eyebrows and seeing nothing but a gay silken flutter--nor did she enter his like a queen walking on soft petals. No, they were eager, serious travellers, absorbed in understanding what was to be seen and discovering what was hidden--making the most of this extraordinary absolute chance which made it possible for him to be utterly truthful to her and for her to be utterly sincere with him.”
― Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Stories

“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“أمنيتى المستحيلة أن أمنح فرصة أخرى للعيش.. أن أولد من جديد لكن فى ظروف مغايرة أجىء مزودا بتلك المعارف التى اكتسبتها من وجودى الأول الموشك على النفاد.. أولد وأنا أعلم أن تلك النار تلسع.. وهذا الماء يغرق فيه من لا يتقن العوم.. وتلك النظرة تعنى الود وتلك تعنى التحذير. وتلك تنبئ عن ضغينة.. كم من أوقات أنفقتها لأدرك البديهيات.. ومازلت أتهجى بعض مفردات الأبجدية”
― جمال الغيطاني

“الجاهل بالمكان أعمى، لا أقصد بالمكان خريطة الشارع ولا أين يبدأ وأين ينتهى، بل المكان الذى يخصنا وتسكن فيه حكايتنا وذاكرة حواسنا الخمس فيه”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“القبول بالنسبي أكثر حكمة من التعلق بالمطلق.”
― رضوى عاشور, سراج

“تناسيت حتى بدا أني نسيت”
― رضوى عاشور, الطنطورية

“تركته و مشيت في طريقي إلى البيت بهدوء و اتزان. كأنني لم أكن أركض تجاه رجل أحبه فاصطدمت بجدار من زجاج شج رأسي و جرحني و ترك كدماته الزرقاء تعلم في جسدي”
― رضوى عاشور, خديجة وسوسن

“غريب هو الانسان، يرى ذاته مركز الكون والتاريخ والحكاية. لنفترض أنني بقيت، هل كنت أصلح ما فسد، هل كنت أحول دون ذبول حلم وحركة، هل كنت قادرة بذارعين لا ثالث لهما وساقين اثنتين فقط وعينين في رأس واحدة وقلب لم تمنحني أمي سواه، أن أوقف تلك العجلة الشيطانية لجرافة هائلة تقترب ثم تعمل فعلها التدميري في حياتنا؟
تقول مرآتي القاسية: كنتم كثيرين، أذرعا وسيقانا وعقولا، ثم تستدرك، ثم هناك شرف المحاولة، والاستشهاد في نهاية المطاف مجد.
تقول مرآتي الطيبة: حاولنا، حظينا بشرف المحاولة. ولكن المواصلة حين تبصر العينان أن لا فائدة غباء وحماقة.
مرآة ثالثة تقول: الشهادة باطلة، كيف لامرئ أن يشهد على زمانه وهو منه وفيه. حلم صعد وانكسر. اتركوا الشهادة للقادمين.”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“الحياة واسعة وضيقة. لما نكون فيها نزرع ونقلع ونربى ونكبّر ونشيل ونحط ونروح ونرجع ونطلع وننزل ونحب ونكره ونحمل الهم وننتظر الفرج، تكون واسعة. ولأنا فيها عن يميننا ناس وشمالنا ناس وفوقنا وتحتنا ناس، الكل مهموم أو فرحان والكل فيها .. تبقى واسعة. ولو وقفنا بعيد، نقول ضيقة مثل خرم الأبرة ، ونقول ايه يعنى نعيش عشان نموت، ونبنى والبنا نهايته هدد، ونعمر والريح تاخد، ونكبّر ونفتح كفوفنا نلاقيها فاضية. أنا باقول لما نعيشها نشوفها واسعة حتى لو ضاقت، ولما نفكر فيها من بعيد نشوفها ضيقة وخانقة وبلا معنى ولا لزوم. كبيرة وضيقة يا بنت أخوبا”
― رضوى عاشور