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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”
― Alvin Toffler, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

“إنها لوظيفة استثنائية فائقة أن تكون انساناً على الأرض!”
― مكسيم غوركي

“ألست ترى أن التشاؤم هو الشجاعة؟ ألست ترى أن التفاؤل هو كذب وهروب وجبن؟ أنت تعرف أن الحياة قميئة وسيئة،فلماذا تواصل الأمل بها؟”
― غسان كنفاني, الباب

“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“العبدُ ليسَ من طوى قَبضتهُ القَيدُ، بل هو يا ابنَ موطني؛ من يدهُ مُطلقةٌ وقلبهُ عبدُ”
― أحمد مطر

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“الذاكرة لعنة الإنسان المشتهاه ولعبته الخطرة، إذ بمقدار ما تتيح له سفراً دائماً نحو الحرية، فإنها تصبح سجنه. وفي هذا السفر الدائم يعيد تشكيل العالم والرغبات والأوهام”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, Cities of Salt

“Don’t walk in front of me�� I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me�� I may not lead
Walk beside me�� just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
― Immanuel Kant

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.��

- Chinese proverb”
― Alvin Toffler

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“منذ ذلك اليوم الذي قذف فيه الانسان القديم حيوانا صغيرا بحجر، بدأ أستخدام العنف لصنع الثروة”
― Alvin Toffler, Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
― Wyndham Lewis

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies