Muhammad Kamal > Muhammad's Quotes

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“مطلبي هو الإحترام الواجب للتفاصيل الملموسة للخبرة البشرية، والتفهم النابع من النظر إلى "الآخر" نظرة ود وتراحم؛ والمعرفة التي تُكتسب وتُنشر بأمانة أخلاقية وفكرية؛ فهذه بالتأكيد أهداف أفضل وإن لم تكن أيسر تحقيقا في الوقت الحاضر من المواجهة والعداء الذي يختزل الخصوم ويحقّرهم.”
― إدوارد سعيد, Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World

“أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
― أحمد مطر

“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.”
― Hannah Arendt

“ويزيد الأمر بشاعةً: أن الذين هم هدفٌ للتدمير والتمزيق والنسف، لا يكادون يتوهمون أن ميدان الثقافة والأدب والفكر هو أخطر ميادين هذه الحرب”
― محمود محمد شاكر, أباطيل وأسمار

“وأخطر هذه الألسنة التي تستفزُّ هذا العالم، هي الألسنة التي اتخذت كلمة الإسلام لغوًا على عذباتها...
....وأخطر هذه الألسنة التي تستفزُّ هذا العالم، هي الألسنة التي اتخذت كلمة الإسلام لغوًا على عذباتها -أي أطراف الألسنة-، لا لأنَّها أعظم شأنًا وأعزُّ سلطانًا من الألسنة الأخرى، ألسنة المموِّهين باسم الحرية، واسم العلم، واسم الفنِّ، واسم الأخلاق، بل لأنَّها تعمد إلى كتاب أنزله الله بلاغًا للناس، وحكمة أوحيت إلى رسوله لتكون نبراسًا للمهتدين، فتحيلهما إلى معان من أهواء النفوس، التي لا تعرف الحقَّ إلا في إطار من ضلالاتها وأوهامها....
ثم يتبعهم التابعون الجاهلون اتباعًا، هو سمعٌ وطاعة، لكن لغير الله ورسوله، بل للزُّور المدلَّس على كتاب الله وسنة رسوله. وإذا هؤلاء المتبعون يعدُّون هذه الضلالة دينًا، ويظنُّون هذا الدين الجديد إحياء للإسلام. وإذا هم يأخذون دينهم من حيث نهوا أن يأخذوا.... يأخذونه عن مبتدع في الدين برأيه، محيل لنصوصه بفساد نشأته، مبدِّل لكلماته بهوى في نفسه، محرِّف للكلم عن مواضعه بما يشتهي وما يحبُّ، مختلس لعواطف الناس بما فيه من حبِّ اتباعهم له، خادع لعقولهم برفعة الإسلام، ومجد الإسلام، وهو لا يبغي الرفعة ولا المجد إلا لنفسه.”
― محمود محمد شاكر, جمهرة مقالات الأستاذ محمود محمد شاكر - الجزء الأول

“ولم أكد حتى انطلقت أجوب مجتمعًا يفورُ بالمتناقضات، ويتشقق بالصراع المر فى ميادين مختلفة: من الدين، إلى العلم، إلى الأدب، إلى الفن، إلى السياسة، إلى السنن الموروثة = فخُضت محنة زمانى، فى أول نشأتى، بنفسٍ غضّة مُجرّحة بالتجارب!”
― محمود محمد شاكر, أباطيل وأسمار