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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.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“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”
― نجيب محفوظ, بداية ونهاية

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable." ~~~~ Mark Manson”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“وَالَّذِينَ جَاهَدُوا فِينَا لَنَهْدِيَنَّهُمْ سُبُلَنَا ۚ وَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَمَعَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ “
الذين جاهدوا في الله ليصلوا إليه ويتصلوا به، الذين احتملوا في الطريق إليه ما احتملوا فلم ينكصوا ولم ييأسوا، الذين صبروا على فتنة النفس وعلى فتنة الناس، الذين حملوا أعباءهم وساروا في ذلك الطريق الطويل الشاق الغريب
أولئك لن يتركهم الله وحدهم ولن يضيع إيمانهم، ولن ينسى جهادهم. إنه سينظر إليهم من عليائه فيرضيهم، وسينظر إلى جهادهم إليه فيهديهم، وسينظر إلى محاولتهم الوصول فيأخذ بأيديهم، وسينظر إلى صبرهم وإحسانهم فيجازيهم خير الجزاء”
― سيد قطب, في ظلال القرآن