سمية

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran

“Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arrive
Work and not work
Attend only to be absent
What makes you a stranger to them closest to you
and they strangers to you
The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran

“لا تحكم على الطريقة التى يتواصل بها الناس مع الله , فلكل أمرئ طريقته و صلاته الخاصة . ان الله لا يأخذنا بكلمتنا , بل ينظر فى أعماق قلوبنا . و ليست المناسك أو الطقوس هى التى تجعلنا مؤمنين , بل ان كانت قلوبنا صافية ام لا .”
― Elif Shafak The Forty Rules of Love

“تعلّم كيفَ تتجاهل كلّ شيء،
وكيف تَقِف وحيداً دون مساعدة أحد،
تعلّم ألّا تعيش على الانتظار،
ولا تكُن هامشاً بحياةِ أحد،
تجاهل مشاعرك كثيراً
واستوعب أن لا أحَد يَدوم لأحَد.”
― Gibran Khalil Gibran