Mina Ghadimi > Mina's Quotes

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Henry Thomas Buckle

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
― William Shakespeare

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“هزار سال پیش
شبی که ابر اخترانِ دور دست
می‌گذشت از فراز بام من
صدام کرد

چه آشناست این صدا
همان که از زمان گاهواره می‌شنیدمش
همان که از درون من صِدام می‌کند

هزار سال میان جنگل ستاره‌ها پیِ تو گشته‌ام
ستاره‌ای نگفت
کزین سرای بی‌کسی
کسی صدات می‌کند؟

هنوز دیر نیست
هنوز صبر من
به قامت بلند آرزوست

عزیز همزبان من
تو در کدام کهکشان نشسته‌ای؟!...”
― هوشنگ ابتهاج

“ای دل چو فراقش رگ جان بگشودت
منمای بکس خرقهٔ خون آلودت

می‌نال چنانکه نشنوند آوازت
می‌سوز چنانکه برنیاید دودت”
― ابوسعید ابوالخیر

“آن فلان گفت به خانقاه نیایی؟ گفتم من خود را مستحق خانقاه نمی بینم و نمی دانم، خانقاه جهت آن فوم کرده اند که ایشان را پروای پختن و حاصل کردن نباشد. روزگار ایشان عزیز باشد، بآن نرسند من آن نیستم. گفتند مدرسه نیایی؟ گفتم من آن نیستم که بحث توانم کردن، اگر تحت اللفظ فهم کنم آنرا نشاید که بحث کنم، و اگر به زبان خود بحث کنم بخندند و تکفیر کنند و بکفر نسبت کنند، من غریبم و غریب را کاروانسرا، کلید می خواهی که در بگشایی کلید را بدزدان باید داد، تو امینی صحبت با دزدان خوش است، امین خانه را باز دهد دزد مردانه و زیرک باشد خانه را نگاه دارد، صحبت با ملحدان خوش است تا بدانند که ملحدم.
صفحه 62”
― شمس‌الدین محمد تبريزی

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People