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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“إن الوطن هو مجموعة عواطف من يسكنونه.. ومجموعة أفكارهم،ومجموعة خياراتهم ومجموعة حرياتهم..
وحين يقف الوطن ضد مشاعر مواطنيه، وضد عواطفهم، وأفكارهم، وضد شؤونهم الصغيرة،فإنه يتحول حينئذ إلى قاووش كبير للسجناء.”
― نزار قباني, جمهورية جنونستان

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“الحياة قصيرة بالنسبة للذين يدركون حقاً
أن العالم سوف ينتهي يوماً لا محالة”
― Jostein Gaarder

“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.”
― Ken Blanchard

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Here lies Dobby, a free elf.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“إن الإنسان لا يموت دفعةً واحدة، كلما مات له قريب أو صديق أو أحد من معارفه فإن الجزء الذي يحتله هذا الصديق أو القريب يموت في نفس هذا الإنسان، و مع الأيام و تتابع سلسلة الموت تكثر الأجزاء التي تموت داخلنا ... تكبر المساحة التي يحتلها الموت ...”
― مصطفى خليفة, القوقعة: يوميات متلصص

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Cedric smiled and sat back again. 'You only think that because you think heroes always win. Trust me on this one, James. A hero isn’t defined by winning. Loads of heroes die in the effort. Most of them never get any recognition. No, a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”
― G. Norman Lippert, James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
― John W. Campbell Jr.

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”
― Mary Norton, The Borrowers

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker