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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.”

الخَوفُ مِن المَجهولِ هوَ أَعظَمُ الخُيوف

“Fear of the unknown is the greatest of all fears.”

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.”

إِنَّ الصَّمتَ أَحياناً أَبلَغُ مِن أَيِّ كَلام

“Silence is sometimes more eloquent than any words.”

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.”

لَا تَسْأَلِي: كَيْفَ كَانَ مَاضِيَّ.. فَالحُبُّ لَيْسَ لَهُ مَاضٍ

“Do not ask how my past was; love has no past.”

عَلَّمَنِي حُبُّكِ أَنْ أَحْزَن.. وَأَنَا مُحْتَاجٌ مُنْذُ عُصُورٍ لِامْرَأَةٍ تَجْعَلُنِي أَحْزَن

“Your love taught me how to be sad, and for ages I have needed a woman to make me sad.”

إِنَّ الشِّعْرَ رَغِيفٌ يُخْبَزُ لِلْفُقَرَاء

“Poetry is a loaf of bread baked for the poor.”

الحُبُّ فِي الأَرْضِ بَعْضٌ مِنْ تَخَيُّلِنَا.. لَوْ لَمْ نَجِدْهُ عَلَيْهَا لَاخْتَرَعْنَاه

“Love on earth is partly our imagination; if we didn't find it, we would have invented it.”

كُونِي امْرَأَةً خَطِرَة.. كُونِي القُوَّةَ، كُونِي النَّمِرَة

“Be a dangerous woman; be the strength, be the tigress.”

مِنَ السَّهْلِ جِدًّا أَنْ نَكْتُبَ عَنِ الحُبِّ، وَلَكِنَّ الأَصْعَبَ هُوَ أَنْ نُحِبّ

“It is very easy to write about love, but the hardest thing is to love.”

ثَوْرَةُ المَرْأَةِ ضِدَّ الرَّجُلِ هِيَ ثَوْرَةٌ لِلْجَمَال

“A woman's revolution against a man is a revolution for beauty.”

إِنِّي أُحِبُّكِ حَتَّى يَجِفَّ البَحْرُ، وَتَنْطَفِئَ النُّجُوم

“I will love you until the sea runs dry and the stars go out.”

الحُرِّيَّةُ هِيَ أَنْ لَا تَنْتَظِرَ شَيْئًا

“Freedom is to expect nothing.”

قَارِئَةُ الفِنْجَانِ قَالَتْ: يَا وَلَدِي لَا تَحْزَنْ.. فَالغُرْبَةُ لِلْشُّعَرَاءِ وَطَن

“The cup reader said: My son, do not be sad; for exile is a homeland for poets.”

بِدُونِ المَرْأَةِ، يَبْقَى الكَوْنُ صَحْرَاءَ قَاحِلَة

“Without woman, the universe remains a barren desert.”

الشِّعْرُ لَيْسَ وَظِيفَةً، إِنَّهُ انْفِجَار

“Poetry is not a job; it is an explosion.”

حُبُّكِ خَرِيطَتِي.. لَمْ أَعُدْ أَحْتَاجُ إِلَى خَرَائِطِ العَالَم

“Your love is my map; I no longer need the maps of the world.”

كُلَّمَا نَظَرْتُ إِلَيْكِ، وُلِدْتُ مِنْ جَدِيد

“Every time I look at you, I am born anew.”