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“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

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.”
― Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

“اكتشفت أن حسّ المعركة هو ( المفتاح السحري) الذي بمقدوره تشغيل ( نظام الفكر والعمل) لدى الجمهور الأعظم من الناس!”
― سلمان العودة

“Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The tension of opposites:
Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another”
― Morrie Schwartz

“We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you're falling.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way to get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives your purpose and meaning.”
― Morrie Schwartz

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“The culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up with egostical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks. We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going . So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?”
― Morrie Schwartz

“We've got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all of this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

Wherever I went in my life, I met people wanting to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble up a new piece of property. Gobble up the latest toy. And then they wanted to tell you about it. 'Guess what I got? Guess what I got?'

You know how I interpreted that? These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back”
― Morrie Schwartz

“نحن جزء من مقاصد الله المعقّدة التي تتجلّى بطرق لا نفهمها دائماً ~ مريم”
― ناهيد رشلان, بنات إيران

“غالباً ما أتمنى أن أحطم حياتي إلى أجزاء ثم أجمعها معاً بطريقة مختلفة. العودة إلى الوراء صعبة عندما يكون أمامك عدة خيارات”
― ناهيد رشلان, بنات إيران

“أليس من الأفضل أن نهاجر بدلاً من أن نتزوج؟
فالزواج هجرة داخلية”
― نجيب محفوظ, الحب تحت المطر

“الفرق بين كلمات شعب وشعب آخر ، هو الفرق بين آلامهما .”
― عبدالله ثابت, وجه النائم

“الشخص القوي جداً لا ينظر إلى من يحب تقريباً يتجاهله ,هكذا هم الأقوياء يعرفون جيداً أن قلوبهم سهلة لمن أمكنه أن يعرف طريقها فيختبئون بالرغم من قوتهم خلف الصمت والإعراض ..أقسم لك.”
― عبدالله ثابت, وجه النائم

“افكر ان السواد في هذا الكون اللانهائي و ان الضوء والنهار شيء طارئ و عرضي، ومهما كان عدد الشموس الا انها لا تكاد ترى ولا تساوي شيئاً في عتمة الكون الكبيرة والممتدة”
― عبدالله ثابت, وجه النائم

“اريد اذا هرولت ان لا افعل ذلك لان يقيناً واحداً او جذراً يملي عليّ حياتي من الخلف... اريد ان اعدو عندما يؤلمني جوعي للحياة ، عندما تضايقني الحقيقة ، اريد ان اجابهها بالسفر والمشي الى قدّام.”
― عبدالله ثابت, وجه النائم

“إنما يفتضح العاشق في وقت الرحيل”
― أبو نواس