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“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
― Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

“It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm

“Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.”
― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”
― Margaret Atwood

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“خلف كل رجل عظيم امرأة خلته يطلع همه فى الشغل !!”
― عمر طاهر

“تيك كير ولا تثق في أحد.. فقد غنَّى هيثم شاكر لمصر (ارمي حمولك عليًّ)، راحت مصر مشيّلاه سنة سجن.”
― عمر طاهر, برما يقابل ريا وسكينه

“لو عايز الحاجة تتقال صح اديها لراجل
لو عايز الحاجه تتعمل صح اديها لست”
― عمر طاهر

“لا تثق أبداً في شخص يبدأ كلامه معك بجملة «أصلي عيبي إني صريح» هذا الشخص
وقح للدرجة التي تجعله يجمل عيباً خطيراً فيه ويحوله إلي ميزة، ليس هذا
وحسب، بل إنه أيضا يتحدث عن هذه الميزة بنكران ذات.. شفت البجاحة؟”
― عمر طاهر

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“لا تغضب من أحد ، فأنت أسوأ كثيرا مما تعتقد!”
― أنيس منصور

“عندما تصبح المكتبة ضرورة كالطاولة والسرير والكرسي والمطبخ؛ عندئذ يمكن القول بأننا أصبحنا قومًا متحضرين”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, أحاديث مع الصحافة

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can't blame him for never wanting to live without them again.”
― Robert James Waller

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”
― Benedict Spinoza

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza

“Epicurus said you should live for pleasure - adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for three years, devoted to making love, reading, eating excellent meals, spending a few days in a nice hotel by the sea, visiting out friends (not very many, all without children), going to concerts and movies, sleeping, cultivating our garden.”
― Benoît Duteurtre, The Little Girl and the Cigarette

“When did you stop caring? he asked.
When did you start noticing? she replied.”
― Lang Leav

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“كان من المؤلم جداً أنّ الناس لا يصلون... ولكنه كان من المؤلم أكثر، أنهم إذا صلّوا، ربما لا يتغيّرون”
― د.أحمد خيري العمري, المهمة غير المستحيلة

“وهل في وسع أحد أن يدهش من بطولة الفلسطيني في الدفاع عن الهوية وعن البقاء؟ ليس للفلسطيني موقع أخير ينهار بانهياره. ليس للفلسطيني موقع أخير. إنه ينبثق من كل مكان”
― Mahmoud Darwish-محمود درويش, في انتظار البرابرة

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well