Maha Ahmed > Maha's Quotes

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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

“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

“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, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“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

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

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.


From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“ 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

“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 Gibran, The Madman

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“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.”
― مصطفى محمود, لغز الحياة

“لا أريد أن أموت قبل أن أكمل رسالتي ، أو على الأقل قبل أن أعرف ما هي”
― محمد عفيفي

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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, It's How Good You Want To Be

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“My soul will find yours.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“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.”
― Kathleen Tessaro

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

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

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel