"إن كنت مكتئبا لعزّ قد مضى...هيــهات يرجعه إليك تندّم
أو كنت تشفق من حلول مصيبة...هيــهات يمنع أن تحلّ تجهّم"
— إيليا أبو ماضي (الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة - إيليا أبو ماضي)

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

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

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

"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)

"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 They are the engineers of the superseded.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)

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

"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)

"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

"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)

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

"الكلمات فيكِ .. ومنكِ .. واليكِ.."
— واسيني الأعرج (سيدة المقام)

"أحيانًا يقود التشابه إلى الحب ، أحيانًا يقود التنافر إليه ، الشخصيات الحنونة تحب أشباهها ، وتلك التي تفقد توازنها كثيرًا أثناء الحياة تحب أضدادها ، دائمًا . "
— محمد حسن علوان

"تبقى المرأة متوازنة حتى تتذوّق رجلاً ما، فيخلطُ في داخلها كل الأشياء، بدءاً من لسانها، ومروراً بقلبها وماضيها وحبها ووفائها"
— محمد حسن علوان (سقف الكفاية)

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
— Audrey Hepburn

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
— Audrey Hepburn

"If I get married, I want to be very married."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."
— Audrey Hepburn

"You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you."
— Audrey Hepburn

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Paris is always a good idea."
— Audrey Hepburn

"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."
— Audrey Hepburn

"Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you."
— Audrey Hepburn

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
— Audrey Hepburn

"As a matter of fact, I rather feel
like expressing myself now."
— Audrey Hepburn

"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!"
— Audrey Hepburn

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"...Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Freedom is often the first casualty of war."
— Gabriel García Márquez (The General in His Layrinth)

"There is always something left to love."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Memories of My Melancholy Whores)

"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"... wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)

"They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

"...and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice, but when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about."
— Gabriel García Márquez