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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“ما اجهل الناس الذين يتوهّمون ان المحبة تتولد بالمعاشرة الطويلة والمرافقة المستمرة.
ان المحبة الحقيقية هي ابنة التفاهم الروحي وان لم يتم هذا التفاهم الروحي بلحظة واحدة لا يتم بعام ولا بجيل كامل”
― جبران خليل جبران, The Broken Wings

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."

[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
― Steve Jobs

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“ينبغى أن يكون المرء مجنوناً لا حالماً...
بمقدور المجنون أن يصير حكيماً، لكن
ليس بمقدور الحالم سوى
أن ينفصل عن الأرض.
للمجنون أعداء. وليس للحالم
إلا نفسه”
― Cesare Pavese

“قبالة وجهك
ووجودك
كلّ التفاصيل
ورطة فرح”
― سوزان عليوان, رشق الغزال

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

“قلبي يتيمٌ
كنقطةِ عتمةٍ
.في الضوءِ”
― سوزان عليوان, لا أشبه أحدًا

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.”
― Bill Watterson

“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that has nothing to do with you, This storm is you. Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up the sky like pulverized bones.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory

“في صالة المطار ..
أحسّ أن أمنياتي طائرة ..
وواقعي دقائق انتظار ..”
― فائق منيف, العاطلون عن الحب ينامون مبكرًا

“كلما ظننا لهم شكلاً / طاحَ قناعٌ لندرك قناعاً آخر خلفه”
― قاسم حداد, علاج المسافة

“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”
― Pablo Neruda

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems