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

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
― Charles Buxton

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
― Virginia Woolf

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
― George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I don't like it when I outweigh my men.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called

“Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.”
― Carolyn See

“A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.”
― Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands: Around the Coral Sea

“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.

All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . .”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“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

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“عندما تتكاثر المصائب يمحو بعضها بعضاً ..
وتحل بك سعادة جنونية غريبة المذاق ..
وتستطيع أن تضحك من قلب لم يعد يعرف الخوف !”
― نجيب محفوظ

“قد نضيق بالحبّ إذا وُجد، ولكن شَدَّ مانفتقده إذا ذهب.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

“يومًا ما سأقرأ هذه الكتب وأصير رائعًا .. لكن ليس اليوم !”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“الثقة بالنفس كلام فارغ ..سوف يدهشك كم الأشياء التي لا تعرفها أو لا تجيدها .. المهم أن تثق بقدرتك على أن تكون أفضل ..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“الملل عقوبة الطبيعة لمن لا يعمل”
― مصطفى محمود

“وإذا آان الله قد اختار المرأة للبيت والرجل للشارع فلأنه عهد إلى الرجل أمانة التعمير والبناء والإنشاء بينما عهد إلى المرأة أمانة
أبر وأعظم هي تنشئة الإنسان نفسه.
وإنه من الأعظم لشأن المرأة أن تؤتمن على هذه الأمانة.
فهل ظلم الإسلام النساء ؟!!”
― مصطفى محمود, حوار مع صديقي الملحد

“ثقى إنك موهوبة وأن الله قد خصك بشىء وأنك لم تخلقى لتشبهى الملايين من أمثالك وإنما أنت جئت إلى الدنيا فى بعثه مقدسة لتكتشفى جوهرتك وتصقلينها وليثق كل واحد أن تحت مظهره العادى بذرة فى مكان مابذره فى مكان ما بذرة عبقرية عليه أن يبحث عنها ويكتشفها وسوف يكون كل شىء بع ذلك ممكناً”
― مصطفى محمود, يوميات نص الليل