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“But your solitude will be your home and haven even in the midst of very strange conditions, and from there you will discover all your paths.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“أنا انسان أصافح المرأه من عقلها
ويأسرني حنانها قبل بريق عينيها
ويبهرني عطاؤها قبل ألوانها الصارخة !
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وجوه كثيرة خدعتني بالألوان ، وانا يا سيدتي أبحثُ دائمًا عن الآنسان”
― فاروق جويدة, ليس للحب أوان

“إن الانسان ليفسر تصرفات الناس أحياناًويضخمها أو يصغرها وفقاً لعلاقتها بمشاعره وأهوائه ، أما هي في ذاتها فليست ضخمة ولا ضئيلة ، ولكنها مناسبة مع منطق الظروف مجردة من أي إعتبار”
― توفيق الحكيم , الرباط المقدس

“واعلم أن أرفع منازل الصداقة منزلتان : الصبر على الصديق حين يغلبه طبعه فيسئ إليك ، ثم صبرك على هذا الصبر حين تغالب طبعك لكيلا تسئ إليه .

وأنت لا تصادق من الملائكة ، فاعرف للطبيعة الإنسانية مكانها فإنها مبنية على ما تكره ، كما هي مبنية على ما تحب ، فإن تجاوزت لها عن بعض ما لا ترضاه ضاعفت لك ما ترضاه فوق زيادتها بنقصها ، وسلم رأس مالك الذي تعامل الصديق عليه .”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda

“لو أصابك الهم لحبيبك إذ تراه مهموما متألما لذقت أحلى أنواع الآلام السعيدة.. فكيف بك لو تبدّل همه بغتة فأقبلت عليك قبلاته وضحكاته تزحزح عن قلبك ناموس الكآبة..”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, السحاب الأحمر

“يا حبيــــــــــــــبا إذا حننت إليه...حـنّ في رقــــتي عليــه حنيني
أنت شخصان في الفؤاد, فشخص...عنـد ظنّي وآخـــــــر في يقيني
واحدٌ كـــــيف شئت أنـــت, وثانٍ ...كيفما شئته أنـــــــا وظنـــــوني
لا بهذا رحمتــــــــــــــني أو بهذا...بل بــــــعقلي عذبتنـي وجنوني
أملي فيك كالخــــــــــيال على الـ ...ـمرآة كــــــذب مصـوّر للعيون ”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“الخيال.. هو ليل الحياة الجميل

هو حصننا وملاذنا من قسوة النهار الطويل

!إن عالم “الواقع” لا يكفى وحده لحياة البشر

إنه أضيق من أن يتسع لحياة إنسانية كاملة”
― توفيق الحكيم, عصفور من الشرق

“لا تعذل المشتاق في أشواقه
حتى يكون حشاك في أحشائه
إن القتيل مضرجاً بدموعه
مثل القتيل مضرجاً بدمائه”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
― Madeline L'Engle

“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings

“It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light

“جمح الزمانُ فلا لذيذٌ خالص... مما يشوب ولا سرورٌ كاملُ.”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue