"أحيانًا يساعدنا الآخرون بأن يكونوا فى حياتنا فحسب"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"وطنك هو المكان الذى ارتديت فيه أول سروال طويل فى حياتك، ولعبت أول مباراة كرة قدم، وسمعت أول قصيدة، وكتبت أول خطاب حب، وتلقيت أول علقة من معلمك أو خصومك فى المدرسة.. وطنك هو المكان الذى ذهبت فيه للمسجد لأول مرة وحدك، وخلعت حذاءك متحديًا صديقك أن يقف جوارك لتريا أيكما أطول قامة.. وطنك هو أول مكان تمرّغت على عشبه فى صراع مع صديق لدود من أجل فتاة لا تعرف شيئا عن كليكما"
— أحمد خالد توفيق (ما وراء الطبيعة: 12 - أسطورة البيت)

"من الحماقة أن يكلم المرء نفسه أمام النساء.. من الحماقة أن تتفلسف وتستعمل الموضوعية مُعتقداً أنك تُحدث صديقك الفيلسوف.. هذه النقاط سوف تستعمل ضدك يوماً ما"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

""أنا لا أجيب أبدا إلا وقد عرفت آخر ما يصل له من يجادلني .. ليس عيبا أن تؤخر الجواب .. العيب كل العيب أن يسرع العالم في الإجابة ثم يكتشف أنه كان مخطئا .. إن خطأ العالم يضرب له الناس بالطبول وهو عيد من اعياد الجهل"
على لسان الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي"
— أحمد خالد توفيق (فانتازيا: 44 - شئ من حتى)

"فليبق الغضب المقدس مشتعلأً للأبد .. ويوماً ما سنحوله إلى نار تحرقهم .. ليس اليوم .. ليس غداً.. ربما بعد مائة عام .. لكن لتبق النار مضطرمة ... لا تطفئوها من فضلكم ."
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"أتمنى أن أبكي و أرتجف , التصق بواحد من الكبار , لكن الحقيقة القاسية هي أنك الكبار! .. أنت من يجب أن يمنح القوة و الأمن للآخرين!"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"إن المرأة تحب رجلها ليس لأنه أقوى الرجال، و لا أوسمهم، و لا أغناهم، بل لأنه هو.. بضعفه و قوته.. و الحب ليس إستعراض قوة لكنه طاقة عطاء دافئة مستمرة"
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"أسوأ تعذيب فى العالم هو الشخص المُصر على الكلام بينما أنت مُثقل بالهموم , ترغب فى أن تبقى صامتاً وأن تصغى لأفكارك."
— أحمد خالد توفيق

"ربما كان في وسع الإرادة القوية أن تتيح لنا أكثر من مستقبل واحد، ولكننا لن يكون لنا - مهما أوتينا من إرادة - إلا ماضٍ واحد لا مفر منه ولا مهرب"
— نجيب محفوظ

"أحياناً ما يكون السبيل خير السبيل للدفاع عن النفس هو في الهجوم عليها وأن الأعتراف بالذنب يغري بالصفح بقدر مايغري الدفاع عنه بالغضب"
— نجيب محفوظ

"و سبح فى الظلام صرير فرنا الى الباب الضخم بذهول . رأى هيكله و هو ينفتح بنعومه و ثبات . و منه قدم شبح درويش كقطعه متجسده من أنفاس الليل . مال نحوه و همس : استعدوا بالمزامير و الطبول ، غدا سيخرج الشيخ من خلوته ، و يشق الحاره بنوره ، و سيهب كل فتى نبوتاْ من الخيرازان و ثمره من التوت ، استعدوا بالمزامير و الطبول......

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— نجيب محفوظ

"كيف نضجر وللسماء هذه الزرقة ، وللأرض هذه الخضرة ، وللورد هذا الشذا ، وللقلب هذه القدرة العجيبة على الحب ، وللروح هذه الطاقة اللانهائية على الإيمان. كيف نضجر وفي الدنيا من نحبهم ، ومن نعجب بهم ، ومن يحبوننا ، ومن يعجبون بنا. "
— نجيب محفوظ

"ليرحم الله من يحسن الظن بالنساء"
— نجيب محفوظ

"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."
— Paulo Coelho

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
— Paulo Coelho

"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
— Paulo Coelho

"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?"
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate."
— Paulo Coelho

"It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn."
— Paulo Coelho

"This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
— Paulo Coelho

"That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
— Paulo Coelho

"Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or--such is the pleasure they experience--they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."
— Paulo Coelho

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

"Love simply is."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,and only the wise can see them."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it."
— Paulo Coelho

"If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day."
— Paulo Coelho

"In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire."
— Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

"What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows."
— Paulo Coelho (The Witch of Portobello)

"Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them."
— Paulo Coelho

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

"If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to."
— Paulo Coelho (Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption)

"You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists--a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles."
— Paulo Coelho (By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept)

"...behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire."
— Paulo Coelho (Warrior of the Light: A Manual)

"We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)