Taj Saleem > Taj's Quotes

“كلّما قالوا انتهى، فاجأتُهُمْ أَنّي ابتدأتْ ”
― مريد البرغوثي

“علمتني الحياة أن علينا أن نحب الناس بالطريقة التي يحبون أن نحبهم بها”
― مريد البرغوثي, رأيت رام الله

“لأنّ كل ما حولنا هنا, يريدنا أن نعيش على الفتافيت, فتافيت الخبز, الكتب, الأمل, الحلم, فتافيت الوطن, وفتافيت الذكريات.”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زيتون الشّوارع

“في الغربة لا تستطيعين ان تدّعي امتلاكك لشيء ما, في الغربة انتِ لا تملكين سوى حلمك, تستطيعين ان تقولي: هذا حلمي, لكنكِ اذا ما قلتِ هذا بيتي, وهذا ولدي, فانك لا تملكين الحق في ان تقولي بان لك حلمكِ الخاص في العودة الى وطنك.”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زيتون الشّوارع

“للصمت المفعم بالشعور حكم أقوى من حكم الكلمات”
― مصطفى محمود, الروح والجسد

“البيوت السعيدة لا صوت لها !!!”
― مصطفى محمود, الروح والجسد

“وللصمت المفعم بالشعور حكم أقوى من حكم الكلمات.. وله إشعاع وله قدرته الخاصة على الفعل والتأثير..
والمحب الصامت يستطيع أن ينقل لغته وحبه إلى الآخر.. إذا كان الآخر على نفس المستوى من رهافة الحس-وإذا كان هو الآخر قادراً على السمع بلا أذن والكلام بلا نطق”
― مصطفى محمود, الروح والجسد

“أريد أن أحتضن قلبي الخائف ، وأغفو باطمئنان”
― نبال قندس

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“وإذا جاءك الفرح, مرة أخرى, فلا تذكر خيانته السابقة. ادخل الفرح, وانفجر!”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي

“جاءك الفرح فجأة ، وقد علمتك الأيام أن تحذر الفرح، لأن خيانته قاسية.”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي

“عندما تسكت المدافع من حقي أن أشعر بالجوع”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“وأنتم ماذا فعلتم بأرضكم؟ اسأل ماذا فعلت بنا الأرض؟ قتلت جدي من القهر والانتظار وشيبت أبي من الكدح والبؤس وأخذتني إلى الوعي المبكر بالظلم.”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي

“هذه بلاد بحجم القلب ، لا شيء فيها بعيد ولا شيء فيها غريب”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“Happy the eyes that can close”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“For who can stop the heart from breaking?”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

“I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it.
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”
― Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country