Youssef Ali's favorite quotes

"إننا نعيش لأنفسنا حياة مضاعفة ، حينما نعيش للآخرين ، وبقدر ما نضاعف إحساسنا بالآخرين ، نضاعف إحساسنا بحياتنا ، ونضاعف هذه الحياة ذاتها في النهاية"
— سيد قطب

15 people liked it

"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

tags: شذا

40 people liked it

"الشيطان لا يندس إلا بإذن منا"
— نجيب محفوظ

tags: الشيطان

16 people liked it

"أن تؤمن وأن تعمل فهذا هو المثل الأعلى،
ألا تؤمن فذاك طريق آخر اسمه الضياع،
أن تؤمن وتعجز عن العمل فهذا هو الجحيم."
— نجيب محفوظ

11 people liked it

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
— George Orwell

tags: political

31 people liked it

"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
— George Orwell (1984)

22 people liked it

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: language, thought

22 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

6,039 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity

6,396 people liked it

"Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down"
— Malcolm X

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

44 people liked it

"In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. "
— Alex Haley

9 people liked it

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

100 people liked it

"If you want to be happy, be."
— Leo Tolstoy

85 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work

221 people liked it

"The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)

tags: god, grief, night

74 people liked it

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

29 people liked it

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

75 people liked it

"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."
— George Bernard Shaw

58 people liked it

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
— George Bernard Shaw

60 people liked it

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

tags: happiness, procrastination, time

1,629 people liked it

"إضاعة الوقت أشد من الموت ، لأن إضاعة الوقت تقطعك عن الله والدار الآخرة ،والموت يقطعك عن الدنيا وأهلها"
— ابن قيم الجوزية (الفوائد)

29 people liked it

"إذا أصبح العبد وأمسى وليس همه إلا الله وحده، تحمل الله سبحانه حوائجه كلها وحمل عنه ما أهمه. وإذا أصبح العبد وأمسى والدنيا همه ، حمله الله همومها وغمومها ووكلها إلى نفسه"
— ابن قيم الجوزية

34 people liked it

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. "
— Barack Obama

tags: change, inspirational

445 people liked it

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
— Barack Obama

tags: hope, service, work

143 people liked it

"I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between chaos and control with everything I do. I always have a fear of going one way or another, getting lost in something, or losing everything to get lost in. And I fear being a completely acceptable sheep in society."
— Marilyn Manson

25 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

9,163 people liked it

"Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)"
— Frank Zappa

11 people liked it

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