Maha's quotes

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"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
6,179 people liked it

"الأدب العظيم يبحث عن الحقيقة، وكلما ارتقى الفنان الكاتب اقترب من الله عز وجل، وكلما اقترب تحير وزادت دهشته وسجدت روحه"
— أحمد بهجت

7 people liked it

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

tags: gratitude
47 people liked it

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: experience
44 people liked it

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life."
— Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment)

tags: realization
27 people liked it

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
— Eckhart Tolle

tags: peace
22 people liked it

"7 DEADLY SINS

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
827 people liked it

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
394 people liked it

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: discovery, identity, self-discovery, service
253 people liked it

"Madness is the acme of intelligence.
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— Naguib Mahfouz

tags: genius, intelligence, madness, mahfouz, naguib
15 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,294 people liked it

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: happiness
1,341 people liked it

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,848 people liked it

"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us"
— Kahlil Gibrán (The Madman)

tags: freedom, madman, madness, safety
18 people liked it

"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
— Aristotle

tags: aristotle, great, madness, mind
10 people liked it

"إن الإنسان الذي خطا ربع مليون ميل في الفضاء إلى القمر عجز عن خطوة طولها بضعة أمتار ليعاون زملاء له يموتون بالجوع في الهند وآخرين يسحقهم الظلم في القدس وفيتنام ..
وأمريكا تلتقي بروسيا على سطع القمر وتعجز عن أن تلتقي بها في مجلس الأمن.

والهروب من تلك النفس وعطبها إلى فضاء الكون حيث يكون الإعتماد على قوانين الله الدقيقة هو الأمر المأمون والسهل .. وهو أسهل آلاف المرات من عكوف الإنسان على نفسه ليصلحها ويقومها ..
ولكنه في ذات الوقت هروب من رسالة الإنسان الأولى على الأرض .. أن يعرف نفسه ويقومها.

بالفكر وبالدين وبالعلم معا يصنع الإنسان نفسه .. أما بالعلم المادي وحده وبدون إيمان وبدون خلق فلن يصنع من نفسه إلا جبارا ومسخا عملاقا مشوها يتنقل بين الكواكب ويخترع أسلحة بشعة رهيبة للقتل الجماعي يدمر بها الكل ثم يدمر بها نفسه دون أن يدري.

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— مصطفى محمود (لغز الحياة)

22 people liked it

" لا أريد أن أموت قبل أن أكمل رسالتي ، أو على الأقل قبل أن أعرف ما هي ."
— محمد عفيفي

tags: محمد, عفيفي
6 people liked it

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
— Abraham Lincoln

180 people liked it

"Being right is based upon knowledge and experience and is often provable. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality. Experience is built from solutions to old situations and problems. The old situations are probably different from the present ones, so that old solutions will have to be bent to fit new problems (and possibly fit badly). Also the likelihood is that, if you've got the experience, you'll probably use it. This is lazy. Experience is the opposite of being creative. If you can prove you're right you're set in concrete. You cannot move with the times or with other people. Being right is also being boring. Your mind is closed. You are not open to new ideas. You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly. Worst of all, being right has a tone of morality about it. To be anything else sounds weak or fallible, and people who are right would hate to be thought fallible. So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug. There's no talking to them."
— Paul Arden (It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book)

5 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,734 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,726 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,308 people liked it

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

tags: books, humor
9,158 people liked it

"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
— Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

tags: maturity, understanding
17 people liked it

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
928 people liked it

"Don't think or judge, just listen."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

662 people liked it

"My soul will find yours."
— Jude Deveraux (A Knight in Shining Armor)

tags: romance
229 people liked it

""If you can capture a woman's imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly." The Flirt (pg 288)

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— Kathleen Tessaro (The Flirt)

tags: love, romance
99 people liked it

"'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)

tags: love
2,102 people liked it

"Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others."
— Muhammad Ibn Abdullah

tags: islam, wisdom
21 people liked it

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,212 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,182 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,000 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,574 people liked it

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
5,283 people liked it

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
1,798 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
3,851 people liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

2,021 people liked it

"When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."
— Mark Twain

tags: anger
127 people liked it

"Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Host)

108 people liked it

"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
— Aristotle

tags: anger
93 people liked it

"عندما اعتنقت الإسلام منذ أكثر من إحدى وعشرين سنة، بدا لي أنه مامن مسلم التقيته إلا وكان تواقاً ليتحدث إلى حول خصوصيات ذات حساسية يعدّها جزءاً لا يتجزأ من العقيدة والدين. كنت أرتاب في كثير مما يقال لي، ولكني حينذاك لم أكن أمتلك الوسيلة التي أتأكد بموجبها من صحة ما يقال.
قيل لي في مناسبات عديدة: إن علي أن أرتدي ملابس شرق أوسطية، وألا أسمع موسيقا، وأن أردد الدعاء والابتهالات كلها بالعربية، وألا أصفّر، وأن آكل بيدي ولا أستخدم أدوات الطعام، وألاّ يكون عندي تلفاز، وألا أرتدي ربطة عنق، وأن أعمل على إسقاط الحكومة الأمريكية عندما تتاح الفرصة، وأن المرأة لا تستطيع مغادرة بيتها إلا بإذن زوجها، ولا تصوّت في الانتخابات، ولا يجوز لها العمل خارج البيت، وأنها لا ينبغي أن تحصل على إجازة قيادة سيارة، وأن الديمقراطية حرام، وأن عليّ تغيير اسمي إلى اسم عربي، وأن استهداف المدنين مسموح به في الجهاد، وأن ارتكاب المرأة للزنى هو أسوأ من ارتكاب الرجل له. وكثير مما يجب أن أفعله وما يجب ألا أفعله تدعمه ببراهين واهية غير مقنعة. ولو لم أكن أخذت ديني عن القرآن، ولو اعتبرت مثل هذه الادعاءات تعبر عن الإسلام حقيقة، لكنت قد تركت الدين بالتأكيد."
— Jeffrey Lang (Losing My Religion: A Call For Help)

20 people liked it

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,155 people liked it

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
1,491 people liked it

"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone"
— Robert Allen

2 people liked it

"I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

tags: love
141 people liked it

"“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.
And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go. All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot. I'm afraid sometimes
you'll play lonely games too,
games you can't win
because you'll play against you. You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.""
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "
— -Jean-Paul Sartre

61 people liked it

"My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: daughters, growing-up, love, mothers
95 people liked it

"When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."
— Mitch Albom (For One More Day)

65 people liked it

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