#dom

إن اللغة ناقل غير كفء، وإن الناس حين يسمعون كلامًا يفهمونه في ضوء ما لديهم من خلفيات معرفية، بل إن كثيرًا منهم يقرؤون تلك الخلفيات ويبلورونها عوضًا عن الاشتغال بفهم ما سمعوه. ↗

— عبد الكريم بكار

#wisdom #life

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#six-nonlectures #truth #wisdom #life

Let go of your worries and focus only on the task at hand.The future will be what it will,and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#life #wisdom #worry #life

When you end up in a fight with someone, make sure you don’t carry the feeling next day because if you do so, you allow a part of yourself to remember ignoring and hating someone unimportant each time you wake up. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#hatred #ignore #life #wisdom #life

Love will never let you down, if you don't give it up ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #love #philosophy #relationships #wisdom

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#professor-phelps #william-lyon-phelps #wisdom #life

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character. ↗

— Chuck Black

#kingdom-s-edge #life

There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#love #philosophy #wisdom #life

To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#chivalry #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature #literature-quotes

Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run. ↗

— Mia Couto

#life