Hamel Assia > Hamel's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

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

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“إن مأساة إعراض الكثير من المسلمين عن إسلامهم وتفرقهم بين متاهات الشهوات والأهواء, لا تشكل خسارة تحيق بالإسلام, وإنما هي خسارة تحيق بهم أنفسهم. فالحصن الذي يتخلى عنه أصحابه يظل حصناً في واقعه وطبيعته وأداء مهمته, ولا بد أن يأوي إليه آخرون؛ وإنما تحدق الأخطار بأولئك الذين تخلوا عنه وآثروا لأنفسهم الانتشار في العراء.”
― محمد سعيد رمضان البوطي, وهذه مشكلاتنا

“في دنيانا يا أمي
لا يوجد فستانٌ بشع
ما دام لكلّ فستان
واحدةٌ تُحب أن ترتديه.”
― زياد الرحباني, صديقي الله

“كل ما نحققه بالانتقام هو مساواة أنفسنا بأعدائنا، في حين أننا بالصفح عنهم، نُظهر حكمة ودهاء”
― Paulo Coelho, Aleph

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“كل دموع الأرض لا تستطيع أن تحمل زورقاً صغيراً يتسع لأبوين يبحثان عن طفلهما المفقود”
― غسان كنفاني, عائد إلى حيفا

“small things comes in big packages.*”
― Assia Djebar

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“عشان توافق لازم يكون من حقك إنك ما توافقش”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, أنا حرة

“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

“أحبّها سرّا وتقتلني علانية”
― محمود درويش

“في بعض الأحيان يجب أن تحطم كل ارتباطاتك حتى تفوز بنفسك.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love