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    Johnny Cash
    “This morning, with her, having coffee”
    ― Johnny Cash
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
    tags: age, choices, decisions, life, wise-man
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  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “You asked if I loved her?
    I can't even whisper her name, my heart would burst out of my chest.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, baghdad, forbidden-love, historical-romance, hope, inspirational, iraq, love-quotes, marriage, pain, passion, patience, romance, romantic
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  • #5
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “An hour later. the moon reflected its light on the Tigris as well. The sun, the moon, and Fatima. What else could I ask for?”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
    tags: baghdad, fate, hope-quotes, iraq, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, misery, moon, passion, romance, romantic
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Those drawn eyes are the gates to whom my soul holds the keys of interpretation.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, eyes-quotes, life, life-lessons, love, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, soul
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  • #8
    Agatha Christie
    “If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.”
    ― Agatha Christie
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    علي بن أبي طالب
    “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
    And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ”
    ― Ali Bin Abi Thalib
    tags: friendship
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  • #10
    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
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  • #11
    Paulo Coelho
    “Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
    ― Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
    tags: eyes-soul
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    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan
    tags: faith-quotes, hope, knowledge, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, passion, patience-and-love, romance, sayings, struggle
    7 likes

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  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery?”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
    tags: baghdad, destiny, forbidden-love, garden, historical-fiction, historical-romance, iraq, love, passion, romance, rose
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “I only remember those eyes”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, eyes, eyes-quotes, life, love, love-hurts, love-quotes, pain, romance, romantic-quotes
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  • #18
    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Sometimes in life, a sudden situation, a moment in time, alters your whole life, forever changes the road ahead.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
    tags: choices, choices-and-consequences, life-changes, life-lessons, life-quotes, path-of-life
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “I know a feeling like that only comes once in a lifetime, and I think you should follow your heart’s desires. I believe in love, and I know love conquers all.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
    tags: baghdad, feelings, historical-fiction, historical-romance, love, love-quotes, love-story, nature, pain, passion, romance, sacrifice
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #21
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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  • #22
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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  • #23
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    ― Pablo Picasso
    tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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  • #24
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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  • #25
    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Never shy away from telling those you love
    how you feel about them.You will never know
    if you will have another chance...”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, death, life, life-lessons, life-quotes, love, mourn, pain, reality-of-life, wisdom
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “I believe in Love, and I know love conquers all.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Gardener of Baghdad
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, baghdad, belief, determination, love, love-quotes, romance, romantic-quotes
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “I hoped that moment in time would never end, but as time goes, it unfortunately did”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, Baghdad: The Final Gathering
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, baghdad-the-final-gathering, hope, love, painful-memories, reality, romance, sadness
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    الحلاج
    “كتبتُ ولم أكـُتبْ إليك و إنـّما كتبتُ على روحي بغير كتابِ
    و ذلك أنّ الروح لا فرق بينها و بين مُحِبـيِّها بِفَصْلِ خطابِ”
    ― الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, ديوان الحلاج: أخبار الحلاج - كتاب الطواسين
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “After staring at the ceiling for more than an hour, I was finally asleep, but I wasn’t in my dream.
    I was walking and walking beside a small stream, and only stopped as I saw a big rounded tree. What made me stop was that the tree had leaves the size of a palm. Bigger then any size I had seen in my life.
    I stepped under its shade looking closer at the magical tree and found that my name was carved at its big trunk.
    I was still surprised and bewildered at my finding when I felt the tree shake and a leaf fell in front of me. I was about to pick it up when more and more leaves started to fall, Leaving
    the tree with only half of the leaves. I tried my best to stop my tree from shaking when I woke up from my dream. I was breathing heavily. My heart was beating fast. I was soaked.

    “My life, The leaves are falling one by one from my life.”
    I said to myself, as I closed my eyes hoping for my life to find spring again.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan
    tags: age, aging, ahmad-ardalan, dream, hope, life, love, pain, reality, tree-of-life
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    Ahmad Ardalan
    “Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—”

    “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them and tell me what you see.”

    I did as he asked and answered, “Nothing, just black.”

    He tilted my head a bit to the west. “Open them now and find the blessing of vision. This abundance, the explosion, the mixture of colors, the movement, life passing by… See the sun setting? What colors can you find in the sea? Surely there are blue and gray, but don’t you also see that darker gray, light green, even black? Look at the hues of the sun drowning in the sea, melting in oranges, reds, purples. Look at those trees over there. Look at the waves, at me, at your hands, the eyes of your friends. Now, must you still ask me why I paint?” Akram replied. He then left me and walked to the tip of the yacht to enjoy the sunset and the breeze.

    “Artists,” I mumbled to myself.”
    ― Ahmad Ardalan, The Art Collector of Le Marais
    tags: ahmad-ardalan, art, artist, arts, avant-garde, colors, painters, painting, paris, sky
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