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  • #1
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
    “قال الخليل بن أحمد : الرجال أربعة، رجل يدري ويدري أنه يدري فذلك عالم فاتبعوه، ورجل يدري ولا يدري أنه يدري فذلك نائم فأيقظوه، ورجل لا يدري ويدري انه لا يدري فذلك مسترشد فأرشدوه، ورجل لا يدري أنه لا يدري فذلك جاهل فارفضوه.”
    أبو حامد الغزالي, إحياء علوم الدين

  • #2
    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #3
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    “A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
    Andrei Tarkovsky

  • #4
    Truman Capote
    “You know those days when you've got the means reds?�
    ‘Same as the blues?�
    ‘No,� she said slowly. ‘No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid, and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?�
    ‘Quite often. Some people call it angst.�
    ‘All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?�
    ‘Well, a drink helps.�
    ‘I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is to just get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #5
    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    Helen Keller, The Open Door

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    al-Hasan al-Basri
    “يا ابن آدم إنما أنت أيام كلما ذهب يوم ذهب بعضك.”
    الحسن البصري

  • #8
    Helen Keller
    “We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
    Helen Keller, We Bereaved

  • #9
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,
    but to be fearless in facing them.

    Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
    for the heart to conquer it.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore

  • #10
    Emil M. Cioran
    “I understood the non-sense of every gesture, every effort…I wanted to defend myself against all men, react against their madness, discover its source; I listened and I saw � and I was afraid: afraid of acting for the same reasons or for any reason, of believing in the same phantoms or in any other phantom, of letting myself be intoxicated in the same way or in any other way; afraid, finally, of sharing a common delirium and expiring in a crowd of ecstasies…It is troubling to think that…all sink into lying because they do not suspect the equivalence, in nullity, of pleasures and of truths.”
    Emil M. Cioran

  • #11
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #12
    Emil M. Cioran
    “Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.”
    Emil Cioran



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