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بِالقَلبِ نُبصِرُ الحَقيقَة، وَبِالعَينِ نُبصِرُ الظِّلال
“With the heart we see the truth, and with the eye we see the shadows.”
أَنتَ لا تَعرِفُ قِيمَةَ الحَياةِ حَتّى تَعرِفَ قِيمَةَ الوَقت
“You do not know the value of life until you know the value of time.”
الإِنسانُ يُجرِّبُ ثُمَّ يُجرِّبُ ثُمَّ يَعود إِلى أَوَّلِ الطَّريق
“A man tries, and tries again, and returns to the beginning of the road.”
الحُبُّ لا يَموتُ بِالإِهمالِ فَقَط بَل يَموتُ أَحياناً بِكَثرَةِ الاهتِمام
“Love dies not only from neglect — sometimes it dies from too much attention.”
لَيسَ الفَقرُ في قِلَّةِ المالِ وَإِنَّما الفَقرُ في قِلَّةِ الأَمَل
“Poverty is not the lack of money — poverty is the lack of hope.”
ما أَبعَدَ ما بَينَ القَلبِ وَالعَقلِ في بَعضِ الأَحيان
“How far apart the heart and the mind can sometimes be.”
الحَياةُ مَسرَحِيَّةٌ يَلعَبُها المُمَثِّلونَ وَيَضحَكُ مِنها المَوت
“Life is a play performed by actors, and death laughs at it.”
الصَّبرُ جَميلٌ وَلَكِن حِينَ يَطولُ يُصبِحُ سِجناً
“Patience is beautiful, but when it drags on it becomes a prison.”
لَيسَ المُهِمُّ أَن تَصِلَ إِلى القِمَّةِ بَل أَن تَبقى إِنساناً وَأَنتَ فيها
“What matters is not reaching the top, but remaining human once you are there.”
يُخطِئُ مَن يَظُنُّ أَنَّ الزَّمَنَ يَمضي دونَ أَن يَترُكَ أَثَراً في الرّوح
“He is wrong who thinks time passes without leaving a mark on the soul.”
لا يَستَطيعُ أَحَدٌ أَن يُحِبَّ بِعُمقٍ إِن لَم يَتَعَلَّم أَوَّلاً أَن يُحِبَّ نَفسَه
“No one can love deeply who has not first learned to love himself.”
في الحَياةِ شَيءٌ واحِدٌ أَصعَبُ مِن الفَشَلِ: أَن تَنجَحَ وَأَنتَ لا تَستَحِق
“There is one thing harder in life than failure: to succeed when you do not deserve it.”
تَعِيشُ لِتَكتَشِفَ أَن الأَحلامَ التي طالَما حَمَلتَها كانَت أَجمَلَ مِن الحَقيقَة
“You live only to discover that the dreams you long carried were more beautiful than reality.”
الحُبُّ لَيْسَ رِوَايَةً شَرْقِيَّةً.. بِخِتَامِهَا يَتَزَوَّجُ الأَبْطَال
“Love is not an Eastern novel where the heroes marry at the end.”
كُلُّ الَّذِي أَعْرِفُهُ عَنِ الحُبِّ.. أَنَّهُ ضِدُّ المَنْطِق
“All I know about love is that it is the opposite of logic.”
قُلْ لِي وَلَوْ كَذِبًا كَلَامًا نَاعِمًا.. قَدْ كَادَ يَقْتُلُنِي بِكَ التَّمْثِيل
“Tell me, even if it's a lie, some soft words; for acting has almost killed me.”