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“لا أريد أن أموت قبل أن أكمل رسالتي ، أو على الأقل قبل أن أعرف ما هي”
― محمد عفيفي

“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

“على قلبي مشيت كأن قلبي طريق أو رصيف أو هواء .”
― محمود درويش, أثر الفراشة

“وحدها الروائح قادرة على الوفاء للمكان زمن التخلي”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“أريد الصمت كي أحيا، ولكن الذي ألقاه ينطقني..”
― أحمد مطر

“وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب”
― نجيب محفوظ

“أريد بعض الراحة ... أريد أن أطفئ النور و أنام ، لسنة أو سنتين ، دون أن يزعجنى احد”
― عزالدين شكري فشير, باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

&�����ܴ�;تعبان
حاسس ف قلبى حِمل جبل
س��ران
وازاى انام وانا عندى ملل

عندى صحيح حاجات كتير
لكن ناقصنى حاجات أكتر

ناقصنى إنى اقدر أطير
وانا عارف إنى فى يوم هاقدر

عندى قمر باسهر وياه
عندى ميعاد وحبيبى لغاه
و عندى أفكارى لحياة
ممكن تغير طعم الكون
واجمل ما عندى إيمان بالله
وباقول يارب تكون ف العون

أصل الحياة أصعب حاجة
ع اللى ماعندوش غير أحساس
الناس لبعضها محتاجة
وأنا لسه عندى أمل فى الناس

لــ عمر طاهر”
― عمر طاهر, جر ناعم

“عشان توافق لازم يكون من حقك إنك ما توافقش”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, أنا حرة

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“لا ترمِ شيئاً
قد يكون ما ترميه
قلبك.&�����ܴ�;
― وديع سعادة, من أخذ النظرة التي تركتها أمام الباب؟

“لا يزال الليل ليلاً أكثر من اللازم”
― فرانز كافكا

“الفرق بين الجوع والشبع :
رغيف واحد
الفرق بين التعاسة والسعادة :
ود كائن واحد من بين بلايين سكان الأرض
ومع ذلك ، يموت الناس جوعًا !
ويموتون غربة !
ما أبخل القلب البشري !”
― غادة السمان, الحب من الوريد إلى الوريد

“كلهم منهمك ووقته ضيق.. أعتقد أنني الوغد الوحيد غير المهم في مصر كلها.”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, قصاصات قابلة للحرق

“كانت طفلتة تفترش الأرض وحولها الأوراق والألوان ,قبلها ثم جلس إلى جوارها ,وسألها ماذا ترسمين؟ فقالت : "أنها ترسم عريس وعروسة يجلسان فى الكوشة" , سألها عن أسمائهم فقالت : "بابا وماما " واندهشت لأنة لم يعرفهما !
تأمل الرسم مجددا وتفحص خطوطها المرتعشة بكل ما فيها من سذاجة ثم قال لها : "ولكن لماذا لا تبدو على وجهيهما الفرحة " ؟
اخذت الطفلة الورقة وتأملتها مجددا ,وغابت ثم رجعت قائلة : "انا خليتهم فرحانين" ,
تأمل التعديل الذى حدث فوجد طفلته رسمت العريس والعروسة وقد امسك كل منهما بخيط طويل فى نهايتة بالونة ملونة ....

عمر طاهر
جر ناعم”
― عمر طاهر, جر ناعم

“إن العيش من دون إدراك معنى العالم هو أشبه بالتجول فى مكتبة عظيمة من دون لمس الكتب”
― دان براون

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“من يكون قادرًا على التحكم بقلبه, يكون" قادرًا على غزو العالم”
― باولو كويلو

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom��, she’s gonna call me “Point B.�� Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.��

She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

And “Baby,�� I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.��

But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.

I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma said�� when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,�� ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.

You will put the “wind�� in win some lose some, you will put the “star�� in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.

And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

“Baby,�� I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.��

Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.

Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.”
― Sarah Kay

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“أستمتع بالحاجات الصغيرة بكره هتعرف أنها كانت كبيره”
― عمر طاهر, جر ناعم

“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I will tuck them into my pockets so I can give them back to you when the rain falls hard. Friend, I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs that reminds you to breath. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, when nobody else is home, hold my hand, and I promise I won’t let go.”
― Sarah Kay

“It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.”
― Sarah Kay

“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Sarah Kay