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“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― The Midnight Library
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― The Midnight Library
“تمنيت ان اعفو عنه ولا كن العفو لا ياتي دفعه واحده كهديه مغلفه بشريط احمرانما ياتي تدريجيا بالاضافه الي ذلك لن يمحو العفو اثار الالم اللذي سببه لي سوف يلازمني هذا الالم ما حيت لاكن هذا العفو سيساعدني ان اتسامي عن الماضي اواجه كل ما حذث كان عليه ان اصرفه عن ذهني كلي احرر نفسي منه
" مارينا”
― Prisoner of Tehran
" مارينا”
― Prisoner of Tehran
“والحق ان أمه بين النساء كألمانيا بين الدول قادرة ع الاستفاده من كل شئ ولو كان زبالة..!”
― بداية ونهاية
― بداية ونهاية
“تنفّست الصعداء، و توقف قلبها عن الغفران.”
― Celestial Bodies
― Celestial Bodies
“يا للعجب إن مصر تأكل بنيها بلا رحمة مع هذا يقال عنا إننا شعب راض هذا لعمرى منتهى البؤس أجل البؤس أن تكون بائسا وراضياً هو الموت نفسه لست فردا ولكني امة مظلومة وهذا ما يولد فى روحي المقاومة ويعزيني بنوع من السعادة لا أدري كيف أسميه”
― بداية ونهاية
― بداية ونهاية
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