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“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

“المرأة بعاطفتها، إنسان يفوق الإنسان”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that’s where you want to be.
Disappointment’ s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life – friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.”
― Chetan Bhagat

“Life is a constant process of dying.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

“All I know is that I do not know anything”
― Socrates

“وحدها الأسئلة الساذجة هي الأسئلة الهامة فعلاً. تلك الأسئلة التي تبقى دون جواب. إن سؤالاً دون جواب حاجز لا طرقات بعده. وبطريقة أخرى: الأسئلة التي تبقى دون جواب هي التي تشير إلى حدود الإمكانات الإنسانية، وهي التي ترسم وجودنا.”
― ميلان كونديرا

“إن حياتنا اليومية مفخخة بالصدف وتحديداً باللقاءات العرضية بين الناس والأحداث ، أي مانسميه المصادفات : والمصادفة هي لحظة يقع حدثان غير متوقعين في الوقت نفسه قيتلاقيان .في أغلب الأحيان تمر مصادفات كثيرة دون أن نلاحظها اطلاقاً”
― ميلان كونديرا, كائن لا تحتمل خفته

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

“ما أطمَعَنا،
لا نقنَعُ بجنّةٍ مُستقرّة.”
― شريف بقنه الشهراني, مدن العزلة

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“على هذه الطريقة ينتهي العالم
على هذه الطريقة ينتهي العالم
ليس بصيحة مدوّية
وإنما بالأنين.
تي اس ايلوت”
― شريف بقنه الشهراني, مختارات من الشعر الأمريكي

“قلم رصاص نحيل يخترق صدري المقعر للمرة اليومية المتكررة فتجدني كمصلوبٍ أسطوريّ هزيل عبرةً لغيري من الدواب المَريضة.”
― شريف بقنه الشهراني, مقتطعات الرنين

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
― Socrates

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
― Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
― Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
― C.R. Strahan

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“إلهي أضَعتُ
أمتعةَ أوقاتي ألهثُ وراء النجاةِ
النجاةُ من الوقتِ الذي أضَعْته،
أمضي حياتي بحثاً عن حياتي
لم أدركُ أن رحلةَ البحث
كانت حياتي.”
― شريف بقنه