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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. "
— Virginia Woolf

30 people liked it

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life
181 people liked it

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves"
— Virginia Woolf

5 people liked it

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

27 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,176 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,231 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
7,846 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,331 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,708 people liked it

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

tags: belief, integrity
6,377 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,166 people liked it

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
— Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)

tags: books, classic, humor
5,427 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
5,919 people liked it

"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

tags: ماضي, إرادة, ارادة
8 people liked it

"ليس أتعس من الحظ السيء إلا الرضا به."
— نجيب محفوظ

tags: الحظ, السيء
11 people liked it

"الشهوة حسناء طاغية سرعان مايصرعها القرف، ويهتف القلب ناشداً في يأس أليم السعادة السرمدية، عبثاً، لذلك فالشكوى لاتنقطع، والحياة خدعة كبرى، وينبغى أن نتجاوب مع حكمتها الخفية كي نتقّبل الخدع راضين، فنكون كالممثل الذي يُعي دوره الكاذب على المسرح، ولكنه رغم ذلك يعبد فنّه"
— نجيب محفوظ

tags: الحياة, السعادة, الشهوة
3 people liked it

"وردة جافة مبعثرة الأوراق عثرت عليها وراء صف من الكتب وأنا أعيد ترتيب مكتبتي.

ابتسمت. انحسرت غيابات الماضي السحيق عن نور عابر.

وأفلت من قبضة الزمن حنين عاش دقائق خمس.

وند عن الأوراق الجافة عبير كالهمس.

وتذكرت قول الصديق الحكيم . " قوة الذاكرة تنجلي في التذكر كما تنجلي في النسيان".

أصداء السيرة الذاتية"
— نجيب محفوظ

tags: محفوظ, نجيب
6 people liked it

"“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

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— توفيق الحكيم

tags: inspirational
12 people liked it

"إذا أردت أن تصمد للحياة فلا تأخذها على أنها مأساة"
— توفيق الحكيم

tags: الحياة
14 people liked it

"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? "
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

tags: joyce, spirituality, subjectivity, women
18 people liked it

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
— James Joyce

25 people liked it

"[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life."
— James Joyce

4 people liked it

"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."
— Oprah Winfrey (The Uncommon Wisdom Of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words)

tags: self-awareness
17 people liked it

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"
— Oprah Winfrey

77 people liked it

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe"
— Oprah Winfrey

20 people liked it

""Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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— Oprah Winfrey

6 people liked it

"The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work."
— Oprah Winfrey

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"Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others."

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— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational
7 people liked it

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
— Julia Roberts

16 people liked it

""I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.”"
— Julia Roberts

3 people liked it

"A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences."
— William Faulkner

8 people liked it

"Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing."
— William Faulkner

30 people liked it

"Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be."
— William Faulkner

26 people liked it

"I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."
— David Sedaris (Naked)

tags: changing, others
174 people liked it

"Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it."
— David Sedaris

20 people liked it

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: depression, silence
97 people liked it

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
— Sylvia Plath

128 people liked it

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: baths
80 people liked it

"That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

59 people liked it

"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

39 people liked it

"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!"
— Guy de Maupassant

tags: humanity, life, mankind
7 people liked it

"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
— Simone de Beauvoir

11 people liked it

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others."
— Simone de Beauvoir

14 people liked it

"Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me"
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Woman Destroyed)

7 people liked it

"Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Woman Destroyed)

4 people liked it

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."
— Simone de Beauvoir (The Woman Destroyed)

4 people liked it

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust
1,202 people liked it

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: humor, philosophy
818 people liked it

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
402 people liked it

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: dance, dancing, music
334 people liked it

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