UmAzzan Al Riyamia > UmAzzan's Quotes

“أسوء تعذيب فى العالم هو الشخص المُصر على الكلام بينما أنت مُثقل بالهموم , ترغب فى أن تبقى صامتاً وأن تصغى لأفكارك.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“حين يرحل أحدهم من حياتي أجد أنه أحد أمرين : إما إنه كان نعمة و أنا قصرت ولم أصن وجودها ، أو إنني كنت أنا النعمة التي لم يصن وجودها ... فدائما ادعو الله واجتهد ليكن دوما الأمر الثاني”
― آية الملواني

“إن الدين الخالص والسياسة الخالصة يوجدان فقط على مستوى الأفكار. أما في الحياة العملية فما نشاهده إنما هو مزيج من عناصر مؤلفة منهما معاً , وفي بعض الحالات يستحيل التفريق بينهما.”
― علي عزت بيجوفيتش, الإسلام بين الشرق والغرب

“تحبین الأطفال ؟.. برافو .. لكنھم طبعًا ھؤلاء الأطفال الذين يظھرون على علب الألبان الصناعیة .. لو استطعت أن تحبي طفلاً قذرًا فقیرًا مبلل الثیاب يتزاحم الذباب والمخاط حول وجھه فأنا أقر لك بأنك أنثى كاملة..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“أحيانا أميل إلى قراءة الكتابات الخرافية، بالأمس عكفت ساعة على قراءة ميثاق حقوق الإنسان”
― محمد عفيفي

“most of all, she loved the way that books could transport her from her otherwise mundane and stifling life and offer the experiences of a hundred other lives. Through books she could see the world.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane: The Not Entirely True Story

“She loved feeling as if she was doing a job that meant something, testing herself each day, changing people’s lives word by word.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“She had earned every one of her bruises and blisters, had built a new Alice over the frame of one with whom she had never felt entirely comfortable.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

“Living was living. The price was guilt, and shame.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Whatever the reason for it, dropping out is a symptom of a deeper problem in the system as a whole, not the problem itself. If you were running a business and every year you lost more than a third of your customers, you might start to wonder if the real problem was them or your business.”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: Revolutionizing Education from the Ground Up

“It’s what your children did: erased your flaws, your tragedies.”
― Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face

“trying new things, making mistakes, beginning again, and seeing good results.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“Most companies are clinging to the established command-and-control system of top-down decision making but trying to jazz it up by fostering “employee engagement” and by “empowering” people.”
― Patty McCord, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

“Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“Without patience for negotiation, there is bitterness: anger that has forgotten where it came from.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We don’t need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“This is how polite society gives way to chaos. The collapse that comes at the end of the process is a consequence of the slow erosion over time.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The German Wife

“It’s not always the strongest trees that survive the storm. Sometimes it’s the trees that bend with the wind. And you, my treasure, find yourself right in a hurricane.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The German Wife

“The only problem with anger is that it burns hot and fast. It doesn’t tend to burn long.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“Sylvie steered away from labels. She wanted to be true to herself with every word she uttered, every action she took, and every belief she held.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning