a quote a day

[Sameeha]

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

[chameleon]

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
Orison Swett Marden

“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

[Sameeha]

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

I liked this

[Em@n]

" Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."

Hardy D. Jackson-"

[Em@n]

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."
William Makepeace

[Mr.Moudy]

"necessity legitimates my advice, for it is the only way to save our lives".
Crusoe p273

[alla*]

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."
.............................

[Big brotheR]

alla

take tihs
The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want.

and wait for more exam quotes to come

[alla*]

thanks for the motivating quote.................

[chameleon]

"That which does not kill me, had better run pretty damn fast "
:D

[Big brotheR]

"That which does not kill me, had better run pretty damn fast "
:D

hilarious:D



If i were a president, i would appoint you Minister of Quotes :p

[chameleon]

hilarious:D



If i were a president, i would appoint you Minister of Quotes :p

It would be an honor :D .... That title sounds pretty good :p

[SMA]

life is a comma, not a fullstop.

what do u think of this brothers and sisters ????

[Big brotheR]

i agree. everything should be good at the end. if it is not good, then it is not the end

[chameleon]

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friend.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

[chameleon]

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions”

Rainer Maria Rilke

[Big brotheR]

if it is a crime to love one's country, then i am guilty

[_romeo_]

It isn't important what man is, but what is important what he represents.

[Sameeha]

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
Jim Rohn

[Sameeha]

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'neill

[hesham]

i missed this section



The pen is mightier than the sword.


mine !

[Em@n]

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

[Em@n]

" My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. "

Pablo Picasso


it is only you :)

[Big brotheR]

that is a wonderful quote!

[Sameeha]

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Pablo Picasso

:o:o:o
don't think so

[Waleed Sultan]

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age .

التعلم زینھ في الرخاء ، ملاذ في المحنة, و مدخر في الشیخوخة


:)

[Florist]

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”

[Florist]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us

[Waleed Sultan]

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us


=
J. Alfred Prufrock + Jimmy Porter !

[Florist]

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat

[Florist]

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”

[Florist]

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to!

[hesham]

Try to present at least three options. One is no choice at all. Two creates a dilemma. With three you begin to have real choice and flexibility

[Em@n]

" I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. "

Pablo Picasso

[Em@n]

" Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "

Pablo Picasso

[Sameeha]

Nice qoutes for Picasso emy

I like this for him

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

Pablo Bicasso

[Em@n]

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

Pablo Bicasso


i was on my way to put it :) that is Picasso semsema ;)

[Em@n]

'"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. "

Pablo Picasso



here u are sameha :)

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. "

Pablo Picasso

[Florist]

the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Florist]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( agreement) .

[Sameeha]

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand. "

Yeah,
This Bicasso is amazing :D:D

[Florist]

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.

[Em@n]

the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
__________________


wow :)

[Em@n]

"If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvasses on the same theme. "

Pablo Picasso

[Florist]

It is part of morality not to be at home in one's home.”

Edward Said

[alla*]

[Life is not the one you live,
but the one you remember
as you remember it
when you tell it]

Gabriel García Márquez

[Mo7amed]

"Comrades!" he cried. "You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing
this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike
milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these
things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by
Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the
well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and
organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over
your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those
apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones
would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried
Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his
tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"

George Orwell - Animal Farm

[hesham]

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

[Big brotheR]

لا يحمل الحقد من تعلو به الرتب*** ولا ينال العلا من طبعه الغضب

[Big brotheR]

ان الافاعي وان لانت ملامسها** عند التقلب في انيابها العطب



I like these two lines. They are from Antara

[Big Sister]

...............................

[Mo7amed]

هكذا أَتحايل : نرسيس ليس جميلاً
كما ظنّ . لكن صُنَّاعَهُ
ورَّطوهُ بمرآته . فأطال تأمُّلَهُ
في الهواء المقَطَّر بالماء ...
لو كان في وسعه أن يرى غيره
لأحبَّ فتاةً تحملق فيه ،
وتنسى الأيائل تركض بين الزنابق والأقحوان ...
ولو كان أَذكى قليلاً
لحطَّم مرآتَهُ
ورأى كم هو الآخرون ...
ولو كان حُرّاً لما صار أُسطورةً ...

لاعب النرد - محمود درويش

[nash]

early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

[Big brotheR]

if that is true, i am doomed!

[nash]

everyone but you sir :)

[nash]

what do you think about this one ( yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift thats why they call it preseny)

[Mo7amed]

الفارق بين النرجس وعباد الشمس
هو الفرق بين وجهتي نظر، الأول
:ينظر إلى صورته في الماء ويقول
.. لا أنا إلا أنا
:والثاني ينظر إلى الشمس ويقول
..ما أنا إلا ما أعبد
.وفي الليل يضيق الفارق ويتسع التأويل

محمود درويش

[Waleed Sultan]

الطماع والكذاب والمتكبر = سوء نية + فقدان للاستقرار النفسي + عزلة






...

[chameleon]

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[Big brotheR]

الطماع والكذاب والمتكبر = سوء نية + فقدان للاستقرار النفسي + عزلة






...

do not get me wrong, but your signature has the last two elements of the equation you just mentioned!

[chameleon]

“When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Waleed Sultan]

do not get me wrong, but your signature has the last two elements of the equation you just mentioned!

Explain !

[Big brotheR]

Explain !

you speak of arrogance and saying none but YOU knows about that thing. And for sure, that can't be true because someone somewhere must know about it!

[nash]

do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles u it only doubles trouble and troubles others too

[chameleon]

“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”

Michael Bridge

[Mo7amed]

ويحملني كالصقرً يحمل صيده، ويعلو به فوق السحاب يطاوله .. فإن فر من مخلابه طاح هالكا! وإن ظل في مخلابه فهو آكله

[Mo7amed]

إذا كان ماضيك تجربةً فاجعل الغد معنىً ورؤيا ... لنذهب! لنذهب إلى غدنا واثقين بصدق الخيال ومعجزة العشب

[Waleed Sultan]

you speak of arrogance and saying none but YOU knows about that thing. And for sure, that can't be true because someone somewhere must know about it!

What is wrong with this ?!

I guess it is an ordinary matter!
Every one has something that many do not know about! And even if they knew about it, they may be mistaken or got another interpretation for the same target. Thus, people meight got the same comprehention, but they will not feel it as the same as the real one !


I hope that you got it. :)

[Big brotheR]

mohammed, have you paid attention to this before!

سَنَغْلِبُ والذي جَعَلَ المنايـا*** بها أَنَفٌ مِنَ الرََّجُلِ الجبـانِ

[Mo7amed]

actually, no

[Mo7amed]

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. :o

Aesop

[Big brotheR]

كأن الموت قابلـة عجـوز*** تـزور القـوم مـن آنٍ لآنِ
نموتُ فيكثرُ الأشرافُ فينـا*** وتختلطُ التعـازي بالتهانـي
كـأنَّ المـوتَ للأشـرافِ أمٌّ ***مُشَبَّهَةُ القَسَـاوَةِ بالحنـانِ
لذلك ليس يُذكَرُ في المراثي كثيراً*** وهو يُذكَرُ في الأغاني
سَنَغْلِبُ والذي رَفَعَ الضحايا*** مِنَ الأنقاضِ رأساً للجنـانِ

[Mo7amed]

yea, I'm listening to it right now

[Em@n]

do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles u it only doubles trouble and troubles others too

very nice :)


إذا كان ماضيك تجربةً فاجعل الغد معنىً ورؤيا ... لنذهب! لنذهب إلى غدنا واثقين بصدق الخيال ومعجزة العشب

for ?

[Mo7amed]

u mean by :)

Mahmoud Darwish - Edward

[Mo7amed]

Edward is the name of the poem

[Em@n]

u mean by :)

Mahmoud Darwish - Edward


ya , great one !

[Em@n]

'' Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ''

Pablo Picasso

[Waleed Sultan]

اِعلَم أَنَّ المََــوتَ حَقٌّ .. وَالحَيــَاةُ بَاطِلَة ..

وَالمَرءُ لَا يَعِيشُ مَهمَا عَـــاشَ .. إِلَّا لِـــــيَمُوت ..

وَكُلُّ صَرخَـــــةٍ .. مَصَبُّ نَهرِهَـــــــــا السُّكُوت ..

وَأَروَعُ النُّجُـــــومِ .. هَاتِيـــــــــــكَ الّتِي تُضِــــيءُ دَربَ القَـــافِلَة ..

حِينَ يُغَطّي العُشـــبُ ذِكرَيَاتــــنَا .. وَتَشــهَقُ المَأسَــــــاةُ فِي البُيُــــوت ..

...

[alla*]

“It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if
we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the
outdoors will be here forever”

Jimmy Carter, the president

[Em@n]

amaaaaaaazing !!

[chameleon]

“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.”

Leonard L. Levinson

[nash]

mine honour is my life , both grow in one take honour from me and and my life is done shakespear (richard the second)

[hesham]

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty

[Waleed Sultan]

شكوت إلي وكيع سوء حفظي فأرشدني إلي ترك المعاصي

وقال لي إن العلم نور ونور الله لا يهدي لعاصي

[chameleon]

“It's not enough to have a dream unless I'm willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right unless I'm strong enough to do it. It's not enough to join the crowd, to be acknowledged and accepted. I must be true to my ideals, even if I'm excluded and rejected. It's not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it.”

{Anonymous}

[Waleed Sultan]

“It's not enough to have a dream unless I'm willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right unless I'm strong enough to do it. It's not enough to join the crowd, to be acknowledged and accepted. I must be true to my ideals, even if I'm excluded and rejected. It's not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it.”

WoOoOoW ...
Really, it is pregnant of meanings ! I liked it so much !

[nash]

to die-to sleep , no more,and by that sleep to say we end the heart-ache and the thousands natural shocks that flesh is heir to... hamlet

[hesham]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

[hesham]

and this one for the person who loves art !



"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

[nash]

nice very nice

[nash]

quickly come, quickly go

[hesham]

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

eman, this is for you !

[_romeo_]

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence

[Em@n]

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

very nice one ...thank u :)

[Em@n]

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence
impressive one !

[Mo7amed]

ألعراق , العراق ,فمن أنت في حضرة الانتحار ؟
أنا لا أنا في العراق . ولا أنت أنت . وما
هو إلا سواه . تخلى الإله عن الحائرين
فمن نحن ؟ من نحن . لسنا سوى خبر
في القصيدة : ليل العراق طويل طويل

أثر الفراشة - محمود درويش

[hesham]

My lord , please save me from my followers




this is the best !

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them

[nash]

little drops of water , little grains of sand , make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land... i love this one alot...

[chameleon]

“The 1st of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”

Mark Twain :D:D:D:D

[nash]

nice chameleon!! missed u :)

[chameleon]

nice chameleon!! missed u :)

good to see you again nash :D

[nash]

thnx u too:)

[nash]

what cant be cured must be endured :)

[nash]

hows big bro those days??

[Mo7amed]

قال الهلال ينادي كل من قتلوا: " الموت محتملٌ ضيفا به ثقلُ"
كذا قياميَ بعد الموت محتملُ
يا قائمي الليل: لا خوفٌ ولا وجلُ
أنا لكم ولدٌ إن شئت أو سلفُ
قال الهلال: أنا المولى انا المولى
يا أهل ودي: أنا مولى دم القتلى
تحت القنابل أتلو سورة الأعلى
ولن ترد المنايا سورة تتلى
لكن نموت وفي أسماعنا شرف
حي المآذن تحت القصف تنتصب
حتى الطيور التي من حولها عرضوا
تطمئن الأهل إذ يجتاحها اللهب
أنا بخير فلا خوف ولا رهب
ما زلت أقصف لكن لست أنقصف
كفــــــــــــوا لسان المراثي .. إنها ترف

تميم - مقام عراق

[nash]

i love tameem and all his poems so thnx for this one sulaiman

[Florist]

i love tameem and all his poems so thnx for this one sulaiman

:-o

[nash]

who said i dont love my parents ...?? and when i say i love tameem it means i admire his style of writing and i enjoy reading his poems (shafiq)

[nash]

a soft answer turneth away wrath

[chameleon]

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”

Helen Keller

[nash]

ive been waiting for u hope u studied well ??

[chameleon]

ive been waiting for u hope u studied well ??

tried....hope i did a great job

[Mo7amed]

I got this from facebook

دخل إلى البيت، وخاف أن يكون قد نسي نفسه على المقعد خائفاً وحين تأكد أنه هو من دخل لا سواه، وقف أمام المرآة، وحين تعرَّف إلى وجهه في المرآة اطمأنّ. أصغى إلى الصمت، فلم يسمع شيئاً يقول: أنا خائف، فاطمأنّ. ولسببٍ ما غامض... لم يعد خائفاً

محمود درويش
sorry for using arabic too much. i won't bring more

[Mo7amed]

the last one :D

القتلي / الشهداء لا يتشابهون. لكلِّ واحد منهم قوامٌ خاصْ، وملامح خاصة، وعينان واسمٌ وعمر مختلف. لكن القتلة هم الذين يتشابهون. فَهُم واحدٌ مُوزَّعٌ علي أَجهزة معدنية. يضغط علي أزرار إلكترونية. يقتل ويختفي. يرانا ولا نراه، لا لأنه شبح، بل لأنه قناع فولاذيّ لفكرة ... لا ملامح له ولا عينان ولا عمر ولا اسم. هو ... هو الذي اختار أن يكون له اسم وحيد: العَدُوّ!

[Sister Harb]

"The whole world will not be able to protect those who participated" in the Qalqiliya incident on Thursday. "They are wanted by Al-Qassam."

Abu U’beidah

[nash]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (قل لو كان البحر مدادا لكلمات ربي لنفد البحرقبل ان تنفد كلمات ربي ولو جئنا بمثله مددا )صدق الله العظيم
i adore this verse

[Sister Harb]

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (قل لو كان البحر مدادا لكلمات ربي لنفد البحرقبل ان تنفد كلمات ربي ولو جئنا بمثله مددا )صدق الله العظيم
i adore this verse

Could you possible write it also by English?

:mad:

[nash]

Could you possible write it also by English?

:mad:

sorry i dont want to translate it in the wrong way and i dont know the original translation... maybe u can ask big bro for its translation... sorry again...

[chameleon]

this thread makes me wanna learn Arabic.... but for that i might need another life time ..so could u at least write the general idea for the quotes ...it would really help :)

[Mo7amed]

well, chameleon.

from now on, i ll be doing this on here, but be sure i ll also be making many distortions to the original texts!

[chameleon]

well, chameleon.

from now on, i ll be doing this on here, but be sure i ll also be making many distortions to the original texts!

I don't mind if u do that...i would just like to know the general idea of the quotes posted ...
So thank you for willing to do this

[Mo7amed]

Could you possible write it also by English?



here it is

018.109
YUSUFALI: Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid."

[nash]

thanx sulaiman

[chameleon]

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?” :)

Friedrich Nietzsche

[thanks Sulaiman ]

[Em@n]

'' It takes a long time to become young. ''

Pablo Picasso


:)

[Em@n]

''It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. ''


Pablo Picasso

[chameleon]

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. - Denis Waitley

[Mo7amed]

that's an optimistic veiwpoint.

[Sameeha]

"The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)

[chameleon]

“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be”
:D

[nash]

faith is like wind u cant see it but u can feel it... :)

[hesham]

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

[hesham]

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.


unknown writer


It's only arrogance if you're wrong, so try skip up any bad idea goes in your mind.

mine !


ليس العيب ان تخطأ *** ولكن العيب ان تستمر بالخطأ

[Iopal.net]

i am so bored i can feel my own hear growing :D

[nash]

curiosity the reason why most of us havent commited suicide long ago

[Sameeha]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962

[Waleed Sultan]

"There are people who speak to us and we do not listen to them; there are people who hurt us and they don’t leave a scar, but there are people who simply appear in our life and they mark us for ever.”


May Allah bless your soul, my grandpa. :(

[nash]

those words are veeeeery deeep wow !!

[hesham]

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

[Mr.Moudy]

"I like to see Malice in the Others' Eyes"

Cristiano Ronaldo

[nash]

love is blind :):)

[alla*]

"I like to see Malice in the Others' Eyes"

Cristiano Ronaldo


:confused:

wat do u mean?

[alla*]

Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

~ Winston Churchill

[Iopal.net]

do you believe in life after love?

[hesham]

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

[hesham]

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

[chameleon]

"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. "
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
Anonymous quotes :)

[Waleed Sultan]

do you believe in life after love?

It is the love itself !!!

[Sameeha]

"As a tale, so is life; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)

[nash]

Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
this is from the movie braveheart the best mooooovie ever

[hesham]

It is better to be quotable than to be honest

[Mo7amed]

قل ما تشاء، فالكلام كله إقتباس

صديقي

إقتبس، فلم يبق في اللغة الحديثة هامش للإحتفاء بما نُحب، فكل ما سيكون كان

محمود درويش


both are talking about intertextuality; everything we say has been said before, and all what we do is just repeating what others have siad. in the modern language, we can enjoy nothing of what we love as long as everything will happen has already happened! there is nothing in the modern language has not been said.

[chameleon]

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

[nash]

wheresoever ye be , death will overtake you , although ye be in lofty towers.
Thr KORAN

[chameleon]

“He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, 'I have lived.'”

Horace

[chameleon]

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”

Marcel Pagnol

[Em@n]

"Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth.''

Jorge Luis Borges,

[Waleed Sultan]

متعة الحياة أن تصنع شيئا لم يصنعه أحد قبلك ولم يفكر به أحد

[alla*]

متعة الحياة أن تصنع شيئا لم يصنعه أحد قبلك ولم يفكر به أحد

i didn't experience this yet
i will try this summer to do sth
maybe all of you will help me to do it insh'allah

[Waleed Sultan]

i will try this summer to do sth

This is exactly what I meant by making new stuff !

[Em@n]

''I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.''

Pablo Picasso

:)

[chameleon]

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca

[Em@n]

WoW!

[Em@n]

''Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.''

Pablo Picasso

[ŠăfêëŔ]

lol..
It's nice to be imoportant, but it's important to be nice!

[chameleon]

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”

Kahlil Gibran

[chameleon]

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”

Kahlil Gibran

[Sister Harb]

"My body is out but my soul is still with the Palestinian prisoners"
Dr. Aziz Dwaik, after releasing from zionist jail

[Mo7amed]

good one

[Florist]

"My body is out but my soul is still with the Palestinian prisoners"
Dr. Aziz Dwaik, after releasing from zionist jail


http://www.iopal.net/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif

[chameleon]

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

Christopher Morley

[nash]

{Quote from Gladiator} The general who became a slave. The slave who
became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor.. :)

[Em@n]

''I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.''

Willa Cather
(1873-1947) Discuss

[chameleon]

"Each day is a gift not a given right"

[hesham]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

[alla*]

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”

Christopher Morley

wow!
this is the definition of creativity
i like it dear ;)

[Florist]

Life is fully obstacles,dont stop at each . Instead collect them and build your prosperous success. "Shafiq said"

[NoOoR]

Julie Marie
Love is the best medicine, and there is more than enough to go around once you open your heart.

[NoOoR]

You can understand the facts of life. But facts of love are much different. To love you love someone or someone loves you.. But when you both love each other you're in love with one another. First become friends and let it go. Then get serious and get together. Just make yourself known as a person not as someone you don't want to be known as...

[NoOoR]

Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

[NoOoR]

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

[NoOoR]

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other

[NoOoR]

Sir Hugh Walpoe
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.

[NoOoR]

No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.

[NoOoR]

Mike Tyson
(American boxer,
"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."

[NoOoR]

H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
(Indian )
"Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed."

.

[NoOoR]

Life is the curse. Sleep is the remission. Death is the cure.

Denise Mugford

[NoOoR]

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]

William Wallace

[chameleon]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

E. E. Cummings

[Em@n]

"it takes a few years to learn to paint like Rafael but alifetime to learn to paint like a child"

Picaso

[alla*]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

E. E. Cummings

amazing :)

[chameleon]

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”

Og Mandino

[Waleed Sultan]

يري بعض الناس الأشياء كما هي ويتساءلون لماذا ...

أما أنـــا فأتخيل الأشياء التي لم تحدث وأقول لم لا

[chameleon]

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

Orson Welles

[NoOoR]

Do yourself a favor, tell her/him that you love them, even if you don’t know how would they’ll react, just let them know how you ‘really’ feel abut them. They won’t be there forever

[chameleon]

“When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary.”

Brock Tully

[hesham]

Why can't we just be who we are & live life as it comes ; so simply ; so happily .

this is mine

[Florist]

يري بعض الناس الأشياء كما هي ويتساءلون لماذا ...

أما أنـــا فأتخيل الأشياء التي لم تحدث وأقول لم لا

Hareega ya waleed.

[NoOoR]

Jason Jordan
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

[NoOoR]

Sydney Smith
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

[chameleon]

"My mom told me once that when you're afraid of something, what you want more than anything else is to make it go away. You want your life back to the way it was before you found out that there was something to be afraid of. You want to build a high wall and live your old life behind it. But nothing ever stays the same. That's not your old life at all. That's your new life with a wall around it. Your choice is not about going back to the way things were. Your choice is about hiding, or about going right to the heart of the thing that scares you."

Taken-Allie

[nash]

this is from a walk to remember i love this line "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful."

[Em@n]

Boswell: 'Then, Sir, what is poetry?'
Johnson: 'Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.'

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits.


Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

[chameleon]

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
http://electroz.org/images/icones/paintbrush.pngSalvador Dali

[Big brotheR]

شيخٌ تورّثُهُ الأشجارُ حكمتَها * فيُبصرُ الزيتَ في الزيتونِ وهو عَمي

[chameleon]

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

[NoOoR]

Dinah Shore
Trouble is part of your life — if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

[NoOoR]

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give — which is everything

[little voice]

The road to success is always under construction.

[Tamara]

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and
ask for it back when it begins to rain.

[Mo7amed]

I am the more particular in this part, that if my story comes to be read by any innocent young body, they may learn from it to guard themselves against the mischiefs which attend an early knowledge of their own beauty. If a young woman once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming enough to captivate him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it.

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

[ROOON]

a handsome woman ?!

[NoOoR]

David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

[NoOoR]

Nora Roberts
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

[SnOw G!rL]

I feel that what u die for is more remarkable than what u live for when it makes u live after death :) me

[chameleon]

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”

Victor Hugo

[NoOoR]

"When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams."

[NoOoR]

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges

[NoOoR]

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own

[NoOoR]

Everyone says love hurts, but that isn't true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt

[NoOoR]

The greatest thing you�ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.

Moulin Rouge

[NoOoR]

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

A. W. Tozer
American Preacher

[Mo7amed]

enjoy!


One morning he pulls off his diamond ring, and writes upon the glass of the sash in my chamber this line-- 'You I love, and you alone.'
I read it, and asked him to lend me his ring, with which I wrote under it, thus--
'And so in love says every one.'
He takes his ring again, and writes another line thus--
'Virtue alone is an estate.'
I borrowed it again, and I wrote under it--
'But money's virtue, gold is fate.'
He coloured as red as fire to see me turn so quick upon him, and in a kind of a rage told me he would conquer me, and writes again thus--
'I scorn your gold, and yet I love.'
I ventured all upon the last cast of poetry, as you'll see, for I wrote boldly under his last--
'I'm poor: let's see how kind you'll prove.'
This was a sad truth to me; whether he believed me or no, I could not tell; I supposed then that he did not. However, he flew to me, took me in his arms, and, kissing me very eagerly, and with the greatest passion imaginable, he held me fast till he called for a pen and ink, and then told me he could not wait the tedious writing on the glass, but, pulling out a piece of paper, he began and wrote again--
'Be mine, with all your poverty.'
I took his pen, and followed him immediately, thus--
'Yet secretly you hope I lie.'
He told me that was unkind, because it was not just, and that I put him upon contradicting me, which did not consist with good manners, any more than with his affection; and therefore, since I had insensibly drawn him into this poetical scribble, he begged I would not oblige him to break it off; so he writes again--
'Let love alone be our debate.'
I wrote again--
'She loves enough that does not hate.'

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

[Waleed Sultan]

نصيب الانسان موجود بين يديه

كتبها: فرانسيس بيكون



The one's fate is waiting at his door

Translated by: Waleed Abu Sultan

[Waleed Sultan]

Everyone says love hurts, but that isn't true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt

WoOoW... Liked it. :)

[Big brotheR]

the fun and irony in those is that they are said by Moll Flanders

[Mo7amed]

the fun and irony in those is that they are said by Moll Flanders

oh how dreadful! they turned to be close relations; she is his sister, and he is her borther!

[Tamara]

she is his sister, and he is her borther!
:o this confused me at first

[Mo7amed]

I strove to form it :D

[Sameeha]

For a colonized people, the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity. But this dignity has nothing to do with the dignity of the human individual: for that human individual has never heard tell of it. All that the native has seen in his country is that they can freely arrest him, beat him, starve him: and no professor of ethics, no priest has ever come to be beaten in his place, nor to share their bread with him. As far as the native is concerned, morality is very concrete; it is to silence the settler's defiance, to break his flaunting violence- in a word, to put him out of the picture

Fanon, The wretched of the earth

[Sameeha]

The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that he violates and starves

[Mo7amed]

I have some outstanding quote but don't think will be suitable to post it here! :o

[Hanan]

why did you say it then in the first place?
now we all are curious............or at least i am!

[Sameeha]

why did you say it then in the first place?
now we all are curious............or at least i am!

agree :)

[Mo7amed]

okay, here it is! here lies the philosophy of love :D

At last, repeating his usual saying, that he could lie naked in the bed with me and not offer me the least injury, he starts out of his bed. 'And now, my dear,' says he, 'you shall see how just I will be to you, and that I can keep my word,' and away he comes to my bed.
I resisted a little, but I must confess I should not have resisted him much if he had not made those promises at all; so after a little struggle, as I said, I lay still and let him come to bed. When he was there he took me in his arms, and so I lay all night with him, but he had no more to do with me, or offered anything to me, other than embracing me, as I say, in his arms, no, not the whole night, but rose up and dressed him in the morning, and left me as innocent for him as I was the day I was born.
This was a surprising thing to me, and perhaps may be so to others, who know how the laws of nature work; for he was a strong, vigorous, brisk person; nor did he act thus on a principle of religion at all, but of mere affection; insisting on it, that though I was to him to most agreeable woman in the world, yet, because he loved me, he could not injure me.

[nash]

well .. u r right sulaiman !!!

[Mo7amed]

... that whenever sincere repentance succeeds such a crime as this, there never fails to attend a hatred of the object; and the more the affection might seem to be before, the hatred will be the more in proportion. It will always be so, indeed it can be no otherwise; for there cannot be a true and sincere abhorrence of the offence, and the love to the cause of it remain; there will, with an abhorrence of the sin, be found a detestation of the fellow-sinner; you can expect no other.

so wise philosophy!

[Sameeha]

... that whenever sincere repentance succeeds such a crime as this, there never fails to attend a hatred of the object; and the more the affection might seem to be before, the hatred will be the more in proportion. It will always be so, indeed it can be no otherwise; for there cannot be a true and sincere abhorrence of the offence, and the love to the cause of it remain; there will, with an abhorrence of the sin, be found a detestation of the fellow-sinner; you can expect no other.


Is this Defoe?

[Mo7amed]

yep

[NoOoR]

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

[NoOoR]

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

[NoOoR]

"My heart is a red rose. When happy, it sparkles brillianly. When sad it bleeds and forms a dark puddle under it. When my heart dies, the soft fragile petals fall. So you might want to put your rose in a vase."

Claire Charmont
Love specialist

[NoOoR]

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica Jong
American Author

[hesham]

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind, your mind is a palace.

[NoOoR]

I do not have superior intelligence or faultless looks. I do not captivate a room or run a mile under six minutes. I only succeeded because I was still working after everyone else went to sleep.

Greg Evans

[NoOoR]

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

[NoOoR]

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be.

Anonymous

[NoOoR]

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love

[Big brotheR]

إذا مات منا سيد قام سيد

قؤول لما قال الكرام فعول