Salma Mattar > Salma's Quotes

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Exile

“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“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

“ 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

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“نهوى الحياة كأنّما هي نعمة
و سوى الفواجع حبّها لا يثمر
و نظنّ ضحك الدهر فاتحة الرضى
و الدهر يهزأ بالأنام و يسخر”
― إيليا أبو ماضي, ديوان إيليا أبو ماضي

“ليت الذي خلق العيون السودا *** خلق القلوب الخافقات حديدا”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“ما أكثر الناس وما أندر الإنسان”
― ميخائيل نعيمة

“أدركتُ حلاوة السكوت ولم يدرك المتكلمون مرارة الكلام, لذا سكتّ و الناس يتكلمون”
― ميخائيل نعيمه, مذكرات الأرقش

“يالوحدة من إذا نادى "يا أخي" ما أجابه إلا الذين ولدتهم أمه”
― ميخائيل نعيمة, كرم على درب

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

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

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“إن القهر يؤدي إلى الإكتئاب ص 113”
― خليل فاضل, ضد الاكتئاب

“إن محور الإكتئاب في أغلب الأحوال، إن لم يكن معظمها، أساسه التفكير (وكيمياء التفكير هي الدوبامين)، ومن ثمَّ فإن إعادة تغيير مزاج الإنسان وتفكيره تأتي عن طريقتين، مساعدته داخلياً بتنظيم مادة الدوبامين، عن طريق عقاقير معينة يصفها الطبيب النفسي، ولا أحد غيره طبق فترة علاجية محددة، وخارجيًا عن طريق العلاج بالمنطق (العلاج التحليلي المعرفي) cognitive analytic therapy، يعني تصحيح المفاهيم النفسية المغلوطة، يعني تبطّل حساسية زائدة، وإحباط ص 323”
― خليل فاضل, ضد الاكتئاب

“إنني لا أرى ف البشر الأسود والأبيض فقط ,
إنما هي مساحة رمادية يتراوح فيها البشر بين الرمادي الغامق والفاتح ..
لا جناة هنا ولا أبرياء ..
فقط البعض يبدأ بريئاً إلى أن ندفعه دفعاً إلى هاوية الإجرام ..
وبعضنا مذنب .. طهرته نواتج أفعاله حتى انتهى به الطريق أقرب إلى القديسين !”
― شيرين هنائي, نيكروفيليا