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“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley

“الكفر الحلو" قصة قصيرة مقتبسة من رواية قواعد العشق الأربعون:

في أحد الأيام كان موسى يسير في الجِبال وحيداً عندما رأى من بعيد راعياً. كان الرجل جاثياً على ركبتيه، ويداه ممدودتين نحو السماء يُصلّي
"يا إلهي الحبيب، إني أحبّك أكثر مما قد تعرف. سأفعل أيّ شيء من أجلك، فقط قل لي ماذا تريد. حتى لو طلبت مني أن أذبح من أجلك أسمن خروف في قطيعي، فلن أتردد في عمل ذلك. اشويه، وأضع دهن إليته في الرزّ ليصبح لذيذاً"
اقترب موسى من الراعي، لينصت إليه أكثر
"ثم سأغسل قدميك وأنظّف أذنيك وأفلِّيك من القمل. هكذا أحبّك"
عندما سمع موسى ذلك، صاح مقاطعاً الراعي وقال: "توقف أيها الرجل الجاهل! ماذا تظن نفسك فاعلاً؟ هل تظن أن الله يأكل الرزّ؟ هل تظن أن لله قدمين لكي تغسلهما؟ هذه ليست صلاة. هذا كفر محض"
كرر الراعي الذي أحسّ بالذهول والخجل اعتذاره، ووعده بأن يصلي كما يصلي الأتقياء. فعلمه موسى الصلاة في عصر ذلك اليوم. ثم مضى في طريقه راضياً عن نفسه كلّ الرضا
لكن في تلك الليلة، سمع موسى صوتاً. كان صوت الله
"ماذا فعلت يا موسى؟ لقد أنّبت ذلك الراعي المسكين، ولم تُدرك معزتي له. لعله لم يكن يصلي بالطريقة الصحيحة، لكنه مخلص فيما يقوله. ان قلبه صافٍ ونياته طيبه. إني راضٍ عنه. قد تكون كلماته لأذنيك بمثابة كُفر، لكنها كانت بالنسبة لي كُفراً حلواً"
فهِم موسى خطأه في الحال. وفي اليوم التالي عاد إلى الجبال ليبحث عن الراعي، فوجده يصلي، لكنه، في هذه المرة كان يصلي له حسب الطريقة التي علمه إياها. ولكي يؤدي صلاته بالشكل الصحيح، كان يتلعثم، وكان يفتقد الحماسة والعاطفة كما كان يفعل سابقاً. نادماً على ما فعله له، ربت موسى على ظهر الراعي وقال: "يا صديقي، لقد أخطأت. أرجو أن تغفر لي. أرجو أن تصلّي كما كنت تصلّي من قبل، فقد كانت صلاتك ثمينة في عيني الله"
تملكت الراعي الدهشة عندما سمع ذلك، لكن إحساسه بالارتياح كان أعمق. بيد أنه لم يشأ العودة إلى صلاته القديمة. ولم يلتزم بالصلاة الرسمية التي علمه إياها موسى
ونختتم القصة بقولنا: "كما ترى، لا تحكم على الطريقة التي يتواصل بها الناس مع الله، فلكل امرئ طريقته وصلاته الخاصة. إن الله لا يأخذنا بكلماتنا، بل ينظر في أعماق قلوبنا. وليست المناسك أو الطقوس هي التي تجعلنا مؤمنين، بل إن كانت قلوبنا صافية أم لا.”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

“but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. ”
― James Frey, My Friend Leonard